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	digitalcraft.org - Kulturbüro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This term defines a poem in which certain letters or words are contained within patterns or compositions to form independent phrases, verses or images within regular lines of continuous text.
		This poet was the first to introduce the Carmina Figurata into the Latin Literature of the 4th century.
		Visual poems follow a tradition extending from Early Greek and Hellenistic visual poems (Carmina Figurata) via the Figurata of the Baroque into the 20th Century.
	www.digitalcraft.org /iloveyou/poetry.htm (1613 words)

	Andrea Hacker, University of California, Los Angeles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Two genres from the tradition of graphic literature come to mind: on the one hand, the text is close to carmina figurata particularly from the Baroque.
		But carmina figurata feature a very close tie between content and form (e.g., the long tradition of visual poems on the crucified Saviour in cross form).
		This distinguishes the portrait from both traditions: neither carmina figurata nor Concrete Poetry relies on a surrounding complex of texts to make it's meaning accessible.
	aatseel.org /program/aatseel/2001/abstracts/Hacker.html (290 words)

	Winder: Reading the text's mind
		A letter may be smeared, the spacing of the text may vary, a higher proportion of e's may be found in one passage, a sequence of words may have a particular rhythm, etc. All these qualities we may perceive, but may choose to ignore, or not, when we read.
		Carmina figurata --visual patterns made with text-- are good examples of how unique qualities can be found in any passage.
		However, the tones of a text are defined as those qualities that we do indeed wish to consider as fundamental and unanalysable in a given analysis.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /epc/chwp/winder/textmind2.html (2182 words)

	ICONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		A continuing tradition of Eastern European visual writing is derived from iconoclasm.
		Influences are traced to the Hellenistic period with technopeignia writing (Theocritus), Greek Orthodox Iconoclasm and from the Byzantine era with tabulae iliacae or pattern poems (Theodoros 50 B.C. A modern example is Simeon Polotskii's (1629-1680) Russian carmina figurata.
		According to Tatiana Nazarenko, "The "poezographical" compositions of [contemporary] Ukrainian practitioners Tetiana and Volodymyr Chuprynin are first and foremost perceived as refined works of graphic art.
	rhizome.org /artbase/22272/localweb/c1text.htm (446 words)

	artnet.com: Resource Library: Carmina figurata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Anticipated in Hellenistic poetry, carmina figurata were introduced to the Latin world c.
		AD 320 by Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius, court poet of Constantine the Great.
		735–804), his pupil Josephus Scotus (d 791) and Theodulph, Bishop of Orléans, all wrote carmina figurata, but the most influential work was created c.
	www.artnet.com /library/01/0141/T014165.ASP (304 words)

	UMBRELLA/REFERENCE/0CT 96
		The work both embodies and discusses language as a physical form, one whose properties cannot be ignored by arriving at a disembodied content.
		The format of this work invokes a reference to the carmina figurata of the Renaissance--works in which a sacred image was picked out in red letters against a field of fl type so that a holy figure could be seen and meditated on in the process of reading.
		The technique is reversed here, with the red field of small type serving as a background in which large, fl letters are arranged like figures on the red ground.
	colophon.com /umbrella/ref.html (1533 words)

	Figure Poems in Johann Hellwig's Die Nymphe Noris
		All difficulties aside, though, this kind of exploration of the pictorial opportunities inherent in written language provides, for the intrepid author, a liberating tool with which to convey ideas and meanings in an intriguing and attractive fashion.
		Often such texts take the form of Figurengedichte or figure poems (also called, variously, carmina figurata [Ernst "Poem" 11], pattern poems [Daly 127] or Bildgedichte [Faber du Faur 150]).
		Higgins remarks that figure poems represent "an ongoing human wish to combine the visual and literary impulses, to tie together the experience of those two areas into an aesthetic whole" (3).
	kebnekajse.tripod.com /nymphe.html (2395 words)

	Laura Borràs Castanyer: Digital Literatur and Theoretical Approaches
		This is without mentioning the latin carmina – creations that resulted from the bookish technology that replaced the papyrus roll with the codex
		On the one hand we find calligrams such as “Il pleut” (1916), which fits perfectly into the ancient tradition of technopaegnia and of the carmina figurata.
		It has perfectly linear verses which are arranged from top to bottom on lines that are slightly inclined in order to contribute to the effect of rain; here the iconism has the function of amusement.
	www.brown.edu /Research/dichtung-digital/2004/3/Castanyer/index.htm (6217 words)

	Arts Illumination (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The Hebrew examples of this extraordinary discipline were widely appreciated in Europe during the thirteenth through seventeenth centuries.
		Drawing from Islamic and Christian traditions, Hebrew artists expanded upon their conventions and added new techniques such as micrography (diminutive script) and carmina figurata (poems in shapes).
		But in addition to a visual celebration, this unique manuscript will communicate the radiant energy and gladness of the Hanukkah story, giving richness and metaphysical meaning to a holiday, which has become commercial and materialistic.
	www.anchor-international.org /efrank.html (2152 words)

	Ellen Frank - Press - Southampton Press Article
		Frank, “Egypt, Cairo, Germany, Morocco.” And though their illuminations were obviously influenced by the countries in which they were living, there were also two characteristics that were constants in all of their work.
		Jewish illuminators invariably shaped text into images (animals, castles, and the like), a technique known as carmina figurata; and they favored the use of diminutive script, or micrography.
		Though she had never heard of either, says Ms.
	www.ellenfrank.com /articlezoomfour.html (1236 words)

	An Introduction to the Study of Medieval Latin Versification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		In the first four chapters of the book, Norberg analyzes the sometimes perplexing technical elements of Medieval Latin metrics: prosody, accentuation, synaeresis, diaeresis, prosthesis, elision, hiatus, assonance, rime, and alliteration.
		He then turns to some of the metrical devices of the poetry: acrostics, carmina figurata (shaped songs), and the like.
		Two chapters unravel the problems of quantitative and rhythmic verses.
	cuapress.cua.edu /viewbook.cfm?Book=NOIM (521 words)

	PaP: About the authors
		Jan D. Hodge has happily retired from thirty years of small college teaching.
		He has a particular interest in carmina figurata, and his poems have appeared in South Coast Poetry Journal, Defined Providence, E.L.F., Black Bear Review, and Buckle and, among others.
		His "Carousel" won the 1997 WordArt prize, and his "Poems to be Traded for Baklava" was the Onionhead Annual chapbook for 1997.
	homepages.tesco.net /~magdtp/pap4authors.html (598 words)

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