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Valkyries

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posted on 2023-08-02, 02:14 authored by Cassandra AthertonCassandra Atherton, Paul Hetherington
Valkyries

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Language

English

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http://survisionmagazine.com/Issue13/caph.htm

Research statement

Background My various visits to Japan and love of manga, anime and the kawaii aesthetic have influenced the neo-surreal aspects of my prose poetry. This is epitomised in one of my favourite anime, The Cat Returns (猫の恩返し), where the protagonist saves a cat only to find her reward is to be taken to the Cat Kingdom as the bride of the King of Cats. When she enters the kingdom, she begins to transform into a cat and a clever play on anthropomorphism ensues. I have also often been to the Ghibli Museum in Tokyo and the giant cat bus from My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ) is another example of the neo-surrealistic Japanese sense of wit and whimsy. Contribution This portfolio makes intertextual use of both Roland Barthes’ A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments (1977) and Maggie Nelson’s Bluets (2009) to explore powerful I think of my prose poems as exploring neo-surreal moments. As scholar Andrew Joron points out, the surreal needs redefining in postmodern society because we are so immersed in everyday strangeness that it has become unremarkable. The prose poem form is wonderfully well suited to exploring neo-surrealism in fresh ways. For example, its use of the sentence—which we also use for so many quotidian purposes—rather than the line, has the capacity to heighten a prose poem’s rendering of the extraordinary because Significance SurVision is an international biannual online poetry magazine established in Ireland in March 2017 as a platform for new Irish and international Surrealist and Irrealist poetry in English. Our editors' tastes are eclectic, and we aim to publish the best, most exciting innovative poetry of different trends and schools being written now.

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JO3 Original Creative Works – Textual Work

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NTRO Other

Issue

13

Publisher

SurVision Magazine

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    SCCA Research190402 Creative Writing (incl Playwriting)970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing

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