Memory, sound and images: Street signs and Last song syndrome
Paolo Manalo
PhD student, School of English
University of St Andrews

Assistant professor, College of Arts & Letters
University of the Philippines

What is cognitive poetics and what is its connection with visual anthropology? Why are MMDA road signs ('Walang tawiran nakamamatay') and radio station ID's ('Kailangan pa bang i-memorize yan?') as long as a line from Shakespeare's sonnets ('Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?') What similarities do self-promotional signs by politicians ('Linisin, Ikarangal, Maynila) have with metaphysical poetry?

Featuring Jose F Lacaba's 'Ang Kagilagilalas na Pakikipagsapalaran ni Juan de la Cruz' (YOUR CREDIT IS GOOD BUT WE NEED CASH) and John Donne's 'Valediction Forbidding Mourning' (SO LET US MELT, AND MAKE NO NOISE).

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