Watkins demonstrates the continuity of poetic formulae in Indo-European languages from Old Hittite to medieval Irish. Using the comparative method, he shows how traditional poetry formulae of considerable complexity can be reconstructed as far back as the original common languag…
In an attempt to elucidate the significance of modernism in poetry, Takeda (comparative literature, Hiroshima University) applies Peirce's semiotic theory to the principal works of three contemporary writers. Mallarme's late sonnets, Eliot's Four Quartets, and Akiko's Tangled Ha…
