WHETHER YOU’RE a political junkie or not, we still have months to go until the GOP convention and the presidential election. Thankfully, IJ readers know that nothing cuts through the rhetoric than ...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- It was former New York Governor Mario Cuomo who, in 1985, summed up political campaigning in literary terms: "You campaign in poetry," he said. "You govern in prose." A new book from ...
In his 1589 how-to for aspiring poets and courtiers, George Puttenham describes poetry as “a manner of utterance more eloquent and rhetorical than the ordinary prose.” The most rhetorical of genres, ...
Americans, sometimes divided over John F Kennedy’s political legacy, have little disagreement about the music and poetry of the martyred president’s soaring rhetoric. Kennedy, who died a half-century ...
In his 1589 how-to for aspiring poets and courtiers, George Puttenham describes poetry as “a manner of utterance more eloquent and rhetorical than the ordinary prose.” The most rhetorical of genres, ...
What do you think of abortion? Do you want a student center? Do you support gun control? Welfare? Post-modernism? Do you support a minimum wage? What do you think of athletes? Do you like Joyce? Does ...
"Origins of the Dream" examines the personal and political intersection of two leading African-American public intellectuals of the mid-20th century, Langston Hughes and Martin Luther King Jr. They ...
Secret powers: Editorial on Javed Akhtar's rhetorical question on poetry's relationship with Fascism
Poetry has always been a bit awkward, its relationship with the political leadership often more or less uneasy, depending on the time and place. Upon being awarded an honorary degree by the School of ...
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