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Generative rumination
Poetic analysis is socially acceptable overthinking
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Sophie Delphis

January 2024

Production and forgiveness
Writing myself out of a spiral
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Sophie Delphis
The books I read in 2023
If you know me, you know that a sizable part of my personality revolves around reading a lot of books outside of my academic requirements. I finished…
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Sophie Delphis

October 2023

The problem with alchemy
Frustrations of translation
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Sophie Delphis

September 2023

Dissecting a sigh
Stéphane Mallarmé’s “Soupir” (“Sigh”), which appeared in the first collection of Parnasse contemporain in 1866, is a relatively early poem that already…
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Sophie Delphis
Creative imbroglio
Reading as incidental and intentional creation
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Sophie Delphis

July 2023

Ghosts
Wearing my grandmother's clothes
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Sophie Delphis
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March 2023

Filling in the gap
Francis Poulenc & Yaz Lancaster
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Sophie Delphis

December 2022

A Year in Books
A defense of prolific pleasure reading & a list of books read
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Sophie Delphis

November 2022

Setting Sylvia Plath
Kaija Saariaho, Sylvia Plath and "female performance"
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Sophie Delphis

October 2022

Brief thoughts on translation
Jhumpa Lahiri, Lydia Davis & Andrei Tarkovsky
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Sophie Delphis
Layers of performance and the performative
“To force musicians to play beautifully or ‘with the soul’ is actually a demand ‘to give their soul’ – testifying to the intensity and intimacy of the…
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Sophie Delphis
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