scholarly journals Akt założycielski polskiego strukturalizmu immanentnego: Juliusza Kleinera Treść i forma w poezji

2021 ◽  
pp. 125-137
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Obremski
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
General Linguistics

In Polish literary studies methodology, Kleiner’s status as entirely marginal, if not anachronistic, can be justified only on one condition, namely if we overlook the study Content and form in poetry (“Przegląd Warszawski” 1922, r. 2, vol. 2, pp. 323–333), for it can be read as the rejected cornerstone of Polish immanent structuralism. Due to the ambiguity of the term “structuralism”, it is necessary to define its meaning here: it will be determined by the historical context, i.e. the Course in General Linguistics (first edition: 1916). Adopting Janusz Sławiński’s terminology, we may add that it is a rejected cornerstone of immanent (“unconscious”) structuralism not a formulated one.

Coda: Literature, language, and creativity

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Kukkonen
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Construction Grammar ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Creative Processes ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Media Environments ◽  
Cognitive Literary Studies ◽  
Creative Media

AbstractLiterature is often considered the creative expression of language par excellence. This coda considers how the perspectives from Construction Grammar, as they are outlined in this special issue, can enter into dialogue with recent developments in how literary studies address creativity. Construction Grammar concerns itself with the productive generation and manipulation of language in everyday contexts, but, as this special issue goes to show, these processes can also be discussed in terms of creativity and deployed to shed light on creative processes in the arts. Convergences between Construction Grammar and (cognitive) literary studies appear to emerge in particular around the question of creative practice in literary language and (1) in how far writing gives rise to particular kinds of creativity; (2) how one can generalize between different creative media, such as literature, painting and music; and (3) how writing-based creativity can be investigated. Literary studies with its interests in media environments, social/historical context and textual analysis might provide a larger testing ground for claims about the compatibility and incompatibility of everyday and literary creativity as they are put forward in this special issue.

Reading the Prodigal Son

2018 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Alison M. Jack
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Prodigal Son ◽  
History Of ◽  
Multiple Meanings ◽  
Universal Themes

This chapter is a review of approaches to the parable of the Prodigal Son from the perspective of biblical and literary studies. The focus in biblical studies on a search for the parable’s meaning in the historical context of the life of Jesus or of the early Church is compared with literary study’s interest in the parable as offering a shared vocabulary with which to explore universal themes. The differences in understanding the significance of the parable’s history of reception are discussed, and the limits of the parable’s openness and flexibility in terms of multiple meanings are considered. The variety of ways in which the Prodigal Son has been read across time and place is celebrated and the aim of the book as a discussion of specific genres, literary periods, and places, rather than a survey, is introduced.

Cognitive Literary Studies, Historicism, and the History of the Imagination

2017 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralf Haekel
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Science ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Scientific Revolution ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Creative Imagination ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cognitive Literary Studies ◽  
The Mind

AbstractFor the past two decades, the scholarly discussion about the merits of neuroscience and cognitive science for literary studies has been, in Germany at least, a rather heated affair. This debate, however, has been much less interdisciplinary than the subject matter would suggest and has mainly taken placeThe need to historicise this relationship is part of a more encompassing claim. I believe it is necessary to focus on theory not as something external to, but as a self-reflexive aspect of, literature itself. This implies the need to investigate the mind and cognition only if it is part of the literary work’s self-reflexive scope within a given historical context. Historically, this reflexion presupposes a network in which scientific theories of the mind play a key role. My main example is the imagination. In this context, I will also focus on the rejection of dualism, or rather: the way that René Descartes’s philosophy, especially his distinction betweenOne key problem within CLS has been the focus on theThis historicist approach to cognition as a self-reflexive aspect of literature, on the one hand, and a reflection on science, on the other, necessarily implies a rejection of any universalising approach to literary works of art. The theoretical historicism proposed in this paper presupposes a turn towards the time-bound and the particular, and respective conceptualisations of authorship, literary production, and the text itself. In order to make my point, I will focus on one key concept and cognitive faculty in the history of the humanities: the creative imagination. A historical approach to the imagination in the light of cognitive science – such as championed by Alan Richardson and Mark J. Bruhn in the field of Romantic Studies – thus serves as my starting point. To make my argument, I will focus on three historically crucial phases as they are periods of transition both within literary history and the history of science: the early seventeenth century as the beginning of the scientific revolution, the Romantic period as a second scientific revolution, and literary Modernism as the formative phase of our contemporary scientific worldview. All three literary examples – Shakespeare, Coleridge, Joyce – can and must be seen as paradigmatic of their age as well as instrumental in bringing about literary change. At the same time, these examples will serve as flashlights to highlight a general trend.

scholarly journals The function of Daniel 1 in a second century BCE historical context

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
HJM Van Deventer
Keyword(s):  
Old Testament ◽  
Short Story ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Second Century ◽  
History Of The Book ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Book Of Daniel

In the first chapter, the book of Daniel begins with an introduction of the main characters, and a short story about refraining from defilement by eating foreign food. From a literary perspective that focuses on form and content it is clear that this chapter was written as an introduction. This contribution reconsiders what earlier form of the book (Daniel 2-7 or Daniel 2-12) it was meant to introduce. In an attempt to alter scholarly opinion as regards the redaction history of the book of Daniel, the function of this chapter is determined against a second century BCE context.Keywords: Old Testament, Daniel, historical contextDisciplines: History, Biblical Studies, Literary Studies

scholarly journals Copernicus, his Latin style and comments to Commentariolus

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 339-438
Author(s):  
George Borski ◽  
Michał Kokowski
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Historical Criticism ◽  
Higher Criticism ◽  
Latin Language ◽  
Sitz Im Leben ◽  
History Of

A methodology of historical or higher criticism and of stylometry/stylochronometry known from Biblical and literary studies is applied to the examination of Nicolaus Copernicus’s writings. In particular, his early work Commentariolus is compared at the level of the Latin language with his later ones (Meditata, Letter against Werner and De revolutionibus) as well as the texts of some other authors. A number of striking stylistic dissimilarities between these works have been identified and interpreted in the light of stylometry/stylochronometry, historical criticism and the history of Copernican research. The conducted research allowed to draw some plausible conclusions about the Sitz im Leben (historical context), the dating of Commentariolus and related matters.

scholarly journals GENERAL LINGUISTIC ISSUES IN B. DE ALDRETE’S TREATISE ON THE ORIGINS OF SPANISH (1616): FROM THE HISTORY OF LINGUISTIC THOUGHT

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Марина Афанасьевна Косарик
Keyword(s):  
Historical Context ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Functional Variation ◽  
Port Royal ◽  
Language Functions ◽  
Xvii Century ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
General Linguistics ◽  
General Linguistic

Введение. Работа, лежащая в русле изучения истории лингвистических идей, вводит в российский научный обиход остающийся практически неизвестным в отечественной лингвистической историографии трактат по истории испанского языка (“Del origen y principio de la lengua castellana o romance que oi se usa en España”, 1606) Бернардо де Альдрете. Цель исследования состоит в уточнении, на основе анализа сочинения Б. де Альдрете, процесса формирования важнейших понятий общего языкознания, являющихся основой современной науки о языке. Материал и методы. Материалом исследования послужило издание лингвистического памятника 1606 г., в качестве методов исследования – критический анализ текста, социокультурный анализ исторических фактов, определявших научный контекст изучаемой эпохи. Текст XVII в. интерпретируется в современных терминах в соответствии с методикой лингвистической историографии. Результаты и обсуждение. Анализ памятника испанской лингвистической мысли проводится на фоне общей характеристики предшествующей научной традиции и с учетом социокультурной ситуации эпохи создания труда Б. де Альдрете. Пиренейская, в частности испанская лингвистика XVI–XVII вв., в период, который можно рассматривать как межпарадигматический, характеризуется в силу особой социокультурной ситуации, сложившейся на Иберийском полуострове, очень широким объектом описания и разнообразием тем. Основное внимание уделяется тому, как в трактате по истории языка разработаны вопросы общего языкознания. Изучение памятника выявило круг нашедших отражение общелингвистических тем в сочинении испанского филолога начала XVII в.: используемые обозначения языка; функции языка, формы и разновидности речи; соотношение системы и речи; историчность языка; проблематика языковых контактов; тема территориального, социального и функционального варьирования языка; различия диалектов и литературного языка. Автор отражает наддиалектный характер литературного языка. Заключение. Автор сочинения о происхождении испанского языка не ограничивается собственно исторической проблематикой, трактат Б. де Альдрете охватывает широкий круг общелингвистических вопросов. Данный источник является убедительным свидетельством зарождения и формирования в лингвистике эпохи, предшествующей грамматике Пор-Рояля, понятий и принципов описания языка, актуальных для современного языкознания. Introduction. The present paper introduces Russian historians of linguistics to a little-known treatise on the history of Spanish – “Del origen y principio de la lengua castellana o romance que oi se usa en España” (1606) by Bernardo de Aldrete. Aim and objectives. The aim of the present study is to analyse B. De Aldrete’s treatise and specify how certain notions of general linguistics, crucial for its present state of development, were being developed. Material and methods. The study is based on a print edition of Aldrete’s treatise (about 400-pages long). The methods employed are: critical analysis of the text as an example of Renaissance linguistic thought and sociocultural analysis of the historical context the treatise was written in. This XVII-century scientific text and its system of terms are interpreted with the help of modern terminology, as normally done by linguistic historiography scholars. Results and discussion. The analysis of Aldrete’s treatise as a specimen of Spanish linguistic thought is performed against the background of the earlier linguistic tradition and the sociocultural situation in the Golden-Age Spain. XVI–XVII-century Pyrenees linguistics – Spanish in particular – was developing in a very specific sociocultural milieu, which preconditioned its inter-paradigmatic nature and an extremely wide scope of objects and themes discussed. The paper mainly focuses on how Aldrete dealt with general linguistic issues in his treatise on the history of Spanish. The analysis shows that such issues include: ways of naming language; functions of language; diversity of forms of speech; correlations between language system and speech; historicity of language; language contacts; diatopic (territorial), diastratic (social) and diaphasic (functional) variation of language; distinguishing between dialects and languages; the domineering role of standard language. Conclusion. The author of the XVII-century historical-linguistic treatise under analysis does not limit himself to studying purely historical aspects of language. The work by Aldrete embraces a wide range of issues of general linguistics, which shows that as early as in the pre-Port-Royal period linguists were already discussing the concepts and principles that are crucial for modern linguistic science.

Reference

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya P. Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Free Play ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Literary Interpretation ◽  
Epistemic Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
American Tradition ◽  
Anglo American

Reference is one of the most important concepts in literary studies, routinely invoked in theoretical discussions since the rise of poststructuralism in the 1970s. Derrida and those who follow his general approach, in particular, take for granted the view that reference is a reductive notion since it limits the range of possible textual interpretations and the free play of language; it does this, they say, by privileging an element drawn from the social or historical context and making it the foundation on which interpretations are based. But this view of reference is both narrow and misleading, since a much richer conception of it can be drawn from such thinkers as the late-19th-century pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce as well as realist philosophers from the Anglo-American tradition who started writing in the second half of the 20th century. According to this conception, literary reference points not to a “thing,” or what Derrida calls a “sensible presence,” but rather to a complexly mediated object of knowledge, an object that is a part of an epistemic field that includes the written or oral text. Elaboration of this epistemic account of literary reference, illustrated through a comparison of two 19th-century realist novels from India where one comments on and corrects its predecessor, provides a more adequate theory than the simple and schematic view poststructuralists rely on. It shows how such a theory of reference can be a valuable, and even an essential, component of literary studies and can indicate how literary interpretation is related to other epistemic practices in human societies, including explanatory work done in the social and natural sciences.

A recent study of Babylonian grammar

1990 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
J. A. Black
Keyword(s):  
Generative Grammar ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Systematic Survey ◽  
Close Study ◽  
General Linguistics

Brigitte Groneberg's book is a thoughtful and discursive essay on a number of problems in the grammar, understood in the broadest sense, of a Babylonian dialect. With one comprehensive dictionary complete and another, even more comprehensive, moving in that direction, with a basic general grammar of Akkadian and several survey-grammars of the various historical stages and geographical dialects in existence, it is entirely appropriate that we should have a close study of a chronologically limited and genre-bound corpus of texts which nevertheless broaches wider questions not dealt with by the more general grammars, and approaches them from a viewpoint which is not blind to contemporary developments in general linguistics and literary studies. If this book proposes new answers to questions about the character of the Akkadian language, and suggests new ways of looking at the analysis of forms, syntax and style, then it may be accounted a success, even if not all readers will agree with all the positions taken. In a way, Syntax, Morphologie und Stil … is a successor to Erica Reiner's A Linguistic Analysis of Akkadian, which also brought modern linguistic work – in this case the theory of generative grammar – to bear on its subject, with brilliant results, but concentrated more on a systematic survey of the entire grammar. Groneberg's book is more selective in its aim.

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