Poetry in Motion

Being Moved by Amusement, by Mockery, and by Mortality in the Asturian Countryside

Bibliographic Data

ID7932149
AuthorsJames W Fernandez (corresponding author)
Year1977
Volume8
Issue3
Pages458
Publication date1977-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueNew Literary History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/468295
OpenAlexW2318137004
LanguageEN
Citations received8

verse from Asturias in northern Spain are examined in the interest of understanding the qualitative movements they accomplish in the various subjects of the verse. A theory of social shape shifting in cultural animates the discussions. We shall argue that such shiftings or movements along the semantic dimensions of are accomplished by metaphoric and metonymic predictions on the subjects of the verse. And we shall chart the quality space that is referenced in this collection of poetry: the culture within which this movement takes place. Any simple notion of movement is challenged, however, by an evocativeness, indeed a multivocality, in certain of these poetic images. This evocativeness summons some villagers beyond mere movement. It calls them out of themselves and their social situation, as it were, to larger perspectives. This paper has benefited from and thus is in particular dialogue with the work of two colleagues. First, it benefits from an important contribution to

Amusement · Art · Literature · Motion (physics) · Poetry · Rural area · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Historical and Literary Analyses · History · Literary and Cultural Studies · Medicine · Medieval European Literature and History · Psychology · Social Psychology

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