Steven P Hopkins
Biographic Data
| ID | 1251267 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steven P Hopkins |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steven P |
| FAMILY NAME | Hopkins |
| SIGNATURE | HOPKINS S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swarthmore College |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5295-4607 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Captive Wives and a Widower King
In traditional religious settings and in literature, laments—and particularly women’s laments—serve to reinscribe and witness to particular loss in all its human power; they enact a systematic attentiveness to pain, overwhelming emotion experienced with and within acts of language. Though they weep, shriek, or sigh, women’s laments are also artful and ethical; they give structure and rhythm to rage, moving from “experience to art, from tears to i…
I Walk Weeping in Pangs of a Mothers Torment for Her Children”
Cross‐cultural scholarship in ritual studies on women's laments provides us with a fresh vantage point from which to consider the function of women and women's complaining voices in the epic poems of William Blake. In this essay, I interpret Thel, Oothoon, and Enitharmon as strong voices of experience that unleash some of Blake's most profound meditations on social, sexual, individual, and institutional forms of violence and injustice, offering w…
Extravagant Beholding
Lovers, messengers, and beloved landscapes
Lovers, messengers, and beloved landscapes
Extravagant Beholding
I Walk Weeping in Pangs of a Mothers Torment for Her Children”
Cross‐cultural scholarship in ritual studies on women's laments provides us with a fresh vantage point from which to consider the function of women and women's complaining voices in the epic poems of William Blake. In this essay, I interpret Thel, Oothoon, and Enitharmon as strong voices of experience that unleash some of Blake's most profound meditations on social, sexual, individual, and institutional forms of violence and injustice, offering w…
Captive Wives and a Widower King
In traditional religious settings and in literature, laments—and particularly women’s laments—serve to reinscribe and witness to particular loss in all its human power; they enact a systematic attentiveness to pain, overwhelming emotion experienced with and within acts of language. Though they weep, shriek, or sigh, women’s laments are also artful and ethical; they give structure and rhythm to rage, moving from “experience to art, from tears to i…
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · EPIC (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (2 works) · Lament (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (2 works) · Witness (2 works)