Given the gendered contours and ritual norms of the oral genre, Cu Chulainn's scripted
lament for Fer Diad is an awkward addition to the corpus of women's keening poems, and it perhaps raises more questions than it solves.
Poetry, Sinew, and the Irish Performance of Lament: Keening a Hero's Body Back Together
Samets discussion of the City
Laments, their reciprocal chronological relationships, and their historical background is very well handled.
The Lamentation over the Destruction of Ur
Ferris concludes in his dissertation on the 'Genre of Communal
Lament' that through comparing the 'communal
laments' in Psalms and the Sumerian balag and ersemma texts, and based on a limited but undeniable contact historically, socially and liguistically, the Sumerian and Hebrew prayers could be placed in a historical-cultural continuum.
LAMENTATIONS: A COMPARISON BETWEEN MESOPOTAMIA AND JUDEA
We
lament that too many bishops are too much CEOs and not enough pastors.
Searing criticism emerges in laments
It is the job of the preacher, therefore, to give voice to the command of Jesus in the gospel today: to unbind the emotion,
lament and exuberance alike, and give the saints of the church permission to go where God is leading us to minister.
All Saints November 4, 2012
When investigating the historical foundations of
lament cosmology and performance in Upper Egypt, I found that many of the
laments echoed the lamentations of their predecessors, inscribed, apparently verbatim, on ancient tomb walls from the Old Kingdom (c.
Funerary lament and the expression of grief in the transforming landscape of Luxor
lament the dark night in which alone the lights of heaven, typically
From the editor's desk
A good example of such polyphony of the
lament text is a lamenting session recorded by myself at a North (Onega) Vepsian cemetery in 2005 (village Yashezero, see Arukask & Lashmanova 2009).
Communicating across the border: what burial laments can tell us about old beliefs/Suheldes ule piiri: mida matuseitkud vanadest uskumustest konelda voivad
Toswell, eds,
Laments Jot the Lost in Medieval Literature (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 19), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010; hardback; pp.
Tolmie, Jane and M. J. Toswell, eds, Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature
It's an album that in my opinion, stands to define
Lament as a professional outfit, with its rich rhythms and infectious beats all topped off with Kath Kimber's superb vocals.
Class acts in the city
The Beekeeper's
Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed
The Beekeeper's Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed America
In Joseph Harris's intelligent and thought-provoking analysis " 'Myth to Live By' in Sonatorrek," which is an updated version of a 1999 paper, (1) Harris convincingly argues that real
laments in Old Norse culture were modeled on mythic ones, using the archetypal
lament of Odin for Baldr as a case study.
Jane Tolmie and M. J. Toswell, eds. Laments for the Lost in Medieval Literature
Part adventure, part fantasy, and wholly riveting love story,
Lament will delight nearly all audiences with its skillful blend of magic and ordinary life.
Stiefvater, Maggie. Lament; the faerie queen's deception
WHAT a wonderful, but tragically true, letter/ poem/lament from Valerie Price (
Lament On Green Loss, 22.5.08).
Letter: Your Say - Blight is spreading
scrapped, Damsel joined the
lament. The devoted lamb, to cement the
Lament for Damsel