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.
Samets discussion of the City
Laments, their reciprocal chronological relationships, and their historical background is very well handled.
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.
We
lament that too many bishops are too much CEOs and not enough pastors.
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.
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.
lament the dark night in which alone the lights of heaven, typically
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).
Toswell, eds,
Laments Jot the Lost in Medieval Literature (Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 19), Turnhout, Brepols, 2010; hardback; pp.
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.
The Beekeeper's
Lament: How One Man and Half a Billion Honey Bees Help Feed
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.
Part adventure, part fantasy, and wholly riveting love story,
Lament will delight nearly all audiences with its skillful blend of magic and ordinary life.
WHAT a wonderful, but tragically true, letter/ poem/lament from Valerie Price (
Lament On Green Loss, 22.5.08).
scrapped, Damsel joined the
lament. The devoted lamb, to cement the
