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  1. compressed word forms

    2019-11-26 17:49:17 UTC
    Compressed word forms, e.g. the Llyfr Coch Hergest Metrical Codes , an example of early cynghanedd (the basic concept of sound-arrangement within one line, using stress, alliteration and rhyme) described/translated here in English : billet spiedbolt spedacross fieldcrows fledaloft, woundedleft one deadthe ss in across and the s of…

  2. Writing as Sanctuary (Hélène Cixous)

    2019-11-26 10:59:57 UTC
    Excerpts/Notes from an essay by Elizabeth AndersonLiterature and Theology, Volume 27, Issue 3, September 2013, Pages 364–379, https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frt004The spatial metaphors of garden, flight, and sanctuary and their connection to the larger concerns of place and movement in Cixous’ writing. Garden suggests stable locations, while flight indicates the movements in and…

  3. Sound is sound is sound

    2019-11-25 21:38:03 UTC
    Áine O’Dwyer “But I do believe in invisible scores, and also relating to the space in which you play”  (Some extracts from an interview with A.O) AO I guess the first place to start would be my own body, what I carry around with me, my memory, and in the…

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