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Hawaiians extend their influence
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When Native Hawaiians heard that their ancestral lands were being threatened, their unified voices in opposition gave force to a resurgent Hawaiian political movement.
This year's U.S. Supreme Court case questioning ownership of former Hawaiian crown lands resulted in protests from the community and action led by state lawmakers of Hawaiian ancestry, whose influence may be greater now than at any time since the overthrow of the Hawaiian kingdom 116 years ago.
Twenty-eight of Hawaii's 76 state legislators have signed up for the Hawaiian Caucus, which gained power this year by ...
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La Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; La Versification. By JEAN-MICHEL GOUVARD. (Collection Premier Cycle) Paris...French universities and its aim is to present the theory of French versification from a descriptive viewpoint (p. 2). Its opening chapter presents...
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English, Alan. Verlaine poete de l'indecidable. Etude de la versification verlainienne.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century French Studies
; ...Man. Verlaine poete de l'indecidable. Etude de la versification verlainienne. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi (Coll. Faux...undecidable metres. Verlaine never completely rejects classical versification, but subverts it: ... on verra que le vers est assiege...
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The versification of Joseph Brodsky, 1990-1992.
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; ...employ the linguistic-statistical method and theoretical basis that have long been standard in academic research on Russian versification, modified where appropriate to take account of the particular features of the material. (5) In the most complete edition...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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An invitation to versification
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; JANE GLENN HAAS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 06-22-2003 An invitation to versification -- Keeping it short must be a forte JANE GLENN HAAS Date: 06-22-2003, Sunday Section: LIVING Edtion: All Editions...
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A History of European Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review
; A History of European Versification. By M. L. GASPAROV, trans. by G. S. Smith and M. TARLINSKAYA. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1996. xvi + 334 pp. 40 [pounds...
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The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. (Reviews of Books).(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society
; The Arabic Theory of Prosification and Versification: On Hall and Nazm in Arabic Theoretical Discourse. By AMIDU SANNI, Beiruter Texte and Studien, vol. 70. Beirut: FRANZ STEINER...
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All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification.(Review)
Magazine article from: New Criterion
; Timothy Steele All the Fun's in How You Say a Thing: An Explanation of Meter and Versification. Ohio University Press, 366 pages, $34.95 cloth $16.95 paper One odd side effect of the growing interest in formal poetry...
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Di-versification.
Newspaper article from: Financial News
; Morgan Stanley's eminent strategist, Barton Biggs, has been known to wax poetical and philosophical in his weekly reports. But he outdid himself in last week's European Investment Perspectives, in which he discussed the disenchantment of wealthy investors with the markets. He didn't content himself
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True feast of versification
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman
; MICHAEL Morpurgo, the Children's Laureate, made a simple but important point at the StAnza Festival on Saturday when he said that poetry is the most intense form of writing. If literature were food, poetry would be foie gras, truffle oil, rich dark chocolate - rare and delicious, but eat it all day
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Hearing the measures. (poetic meter and versification)
Magazine article from: Style
; The poets and the audiences of 1590 and 1600 were in love with the unrhymed pentameters. To us familiar; to them a Newfoundland. They ran riot with the discovery, as an age does when a new creative medium falls to its portion. They heard the beat with rapture. Even when the poets and players
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