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Ricardo de Ungria and Philippine Poetics
Get PDFSometimes it takes a national trauma to jolt a poet out of his necessary occupation with form, and Ricardo de Ungria is no exception. De Ungria's life as a poet spans some 20 odd years, starting with the publication of his poetry book R+A+D+I+O. In the early 1980s, like most Filipinos, he found the socio-political situation in the Philippines increasingly difficult to ignore. After 1986, with the end of the Marcos dictatorship, he went to the US to work on an MFA in creative writing. In this paper, I would like to show how the Philippine situation and a transnational experience revised and redirected his view of poetry and its writing. While in the US, he was, in his words, at “a crossroads†between “place and placelessness,†a position he put to poetic advantage even after his return to the Philippines
Alfian Sa’at, Collected Plays Two. The Asian Boys Trilogy: Dreamplay, Landmarks, Happy Endings
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The Use of Corpus-based Techniques in Literary Analysis: Exploring Learners’ Perceptions
Get PDFAlthough corpus linguistics is now known to broaden our understanding of various phenomena in linguistics and literature, little research has been undertaken to examine its effects on the learning experience of learners in the literature class. This study was aimed at exploring how learners respond to the adaptation of corpus-based techniques in their literary analysis. Specifically it tried to determine (1) how the participants perceived the use of corpus-based techniques in their literary analysis and (2) if these perceptions were influenced by their preference for literature or linguistics as a field of study. Participants for the study were 39 undergraduate English majors taking a language-based computer applications course at a public university in Malaysia. Data were collected from a specially designed questionnaire and group interviews. Findings indicated that more than 50% participants perceived all three techniques favourably in terms of learning enjoyment, improvement of understanding and wider applicability. The study also found that preference for literature or linguistics had no effect on their perceptions. To further appreciate their usefulness, the next step would be to apply these techniques in actual literature courses
