Tombs of Poets’ Minor Characters

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bing
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Hero Cult ◽  
Literary Characters

This chapter focuses on Hellenistic epigrams commemorating the death of minor literary characters: a hero named just once in Homer, the slaughtered children of Medea, a prostitute berated by Sappho, the daughters of Lycambes vilified by Archilochus, and the lovely Baucis, Erinna’s friend. It argues that these commemorations reveal an aspect of the Hellenistic reception of earlier Greek poetry—its avid engagement with the tradition, extending even to lesser figures. The chapter suggests that the epigrams, viewed against the backdrop of real-life hero cult, are a kind of metafiction, reactions to, and spin-offs from, an urtext. It demonstrates how an interest in buried literary figures enabled a discourse on literature as autonomous from real-life ritual and yet as best expressed through the materiality of the tomb.

When Novels End

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elaine Auyoung
Keyword(s):  
Thomas Hardy ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Fictional World ◽  
Parasocial Relationships ◽  
Positive Liberty ◽  
Literary Characters

This chapter examines why readers, writers, and literary critics sometimes use the vocabulary of loss and mourning to describe the experience of coming to the end of a novel. It relies on the elegies of Thomas Hardy to understand the phenomenology of returning to one’s immediate surroundings after being immersed in a fictional world and of having to detach from fictional persons who continue to dwell in one’s mind. Hardy’s imaginative fascination with one-sided, parasocial relationships that are never reciprocated also reveals that attending to literary characters permits readers to experience forms of negative and positive liberty that are unavailable in real life.

scholarly journals ALIENASI TOKOH UTAMA DALAM NOVEL POL KARYA PUTU WIJAYA

LITERA ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anwar Efendi
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Structural Aspect ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Genetic Aspect ◽  
Minor Characters ◽  
The Real ◽  
First Impression ◽  
Life Model ◽  
Research Findings

This research objective is to describe two things, namely (1) the manifestations ofalienation and (2) characterization elements employed to describe human alienationin Pol, a novel by Putu Wijaya. These two things are related to the worldview adoptedby Putu Wijaya as a writer in response to the sociohistoricalcondition in society.The source of the data in this study was Putu Wijaya’s Pol (the first impression,1987). The data were collected through reading and recording. The data analysiscovered two aspects, namely (1) the structural aspect, and (2) the genetic aspect of theliterary work, the writer’s worldview. The validity was assessed through semanticvalidity and the reliability was assessed by reading and rereading (intraraterreliability).On the basis of the research findings and analysis, some inferences can be made.First, alienation in Pol on the basis of its manifestations can be classified into threecategories, namely (a) loneliness, (b) spiritual emptiness, and (c) disappointment.Second, characters’ alienation symptoms are expressed through characterizationelements, comprising (a) the writer’ s description of characters, (b) characters’thoughts, (c) characters’ actions, and (d) minor characters’ reactions to the maincharacter. A literary work as a life model or an alternative world is always relatedto the real life. In the novel, Putu Wijaya posits himself as a photographer of thesociety’s life.

Greek Praise Poetry and the Rhetoric of Divinity

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felix J. Meister
Keyword(s):  
Greek Poetry ◽  
Hero Cult ◽  
Wedding Songs ◽  
Divine Life ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Praise Poetry ◽  
Ritual Context

This monograph focuses on passages of archaic and classical Greek poetry where certain human individuals in certain moments are presented as approximating to the gods. The approximation pursued is different from any form of immortality, be it apotheosis, hero cult, or fame preserved in song. Instead, this monograph is concerned with the momentary attainment of central aspects characteristic of divine life, such as supreme happiness, unsurpassed beauty, or boundless power. The three main chapters of this monograph (Chapters 2, 3, and 4) illustrate the approximation of human figures to these aspects in wedding songs, victory odes, and drama respectively. This monograph also explores the relationship between such approximations and ritual. In some genres, the surrounding ritual context itself seems to engender a vision of someone as more than human, and this vision is reflected also in other media. In contrast, where such visions are not rooted in ritual, they tend to be more problematic and associated with hubris and transgression. What emerges from this study is the impression of a culture where the boundaries between man and god are more flexible than is commonly thought.

scholarly journals Les trois concerts de Charles de Vivray

Cahiers ERTA ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 85-108
Author(s):  
Ewa Małgorzata Wierzbowska
Keyword(s):  
Real Life ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Musical Space ◽  
Musical Compositions ◽  
Real People ◽  
Literary Characters ◽  
Music Theorist

Charles de Vivray's Three Concerts Music is a keystone in the entire work of Marie Krysinska, who was first and foremost a musician. Guided by the rule of universal harmony, the perfect realisations of which are musical compositions, she applies it in her poems as well as in her narrative texts. Krysinska's novel, La Force du désir [The Force of Desire], was read in its time primarily as a roman à clef. Behind the literary characters are real people: poets, writers, actresses, singers, journalists, composers. One of the portraits is particularly touching, that of de Vivray whose real-life prototype was Charles-Erhardt de Sivry. A musician, conductor, poet and music theorist, de Sivry charmed listeners with his compositions. In the diegesis, all his professional activities are mentioned, more or less revealed. Thanks to Charles de Vivray's three concerts, the novelistic space transforms into a musical space.

scholarly journals The portrayal of moral evaluation in Greek poetry

1983 ◽  
Vol 103 ◽  
pp. 35-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. J. Dover
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Moral Values ◽  
Moral Evaluation ◽  
Practical Work ◽  
Greek Poetry ◽  
History Of

Anyone who has read my bookGreek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle(Oxford 1974) (hereafter ‘GPM’) and has also read Professor A. W. H. Adkins' bookMerit and Responsibility(Oxford 1960) (‘M&R’) will have noticed that the two books differ substantially in their approach to the history of Greek moral values and in some of the conclusions which they reach. Adkins' critical review ofGPM, entitled ‘Problems in Greek Popular Morality’,CPhlxxiii (1978) 143–58 (‘Problems’), explains very clearly why he findsGPMin many respects inadequate or misleading, and it has greatly helped me to understand my own disquiet at the influence exercised by the presuppositions, methods and conclusions ofM&R. My purpose in this paper is not to offer a review ofM&Rtwenty years too late, nor to attempt a rebuttal, point by point, of the criticisms ofGPMcontained inProblems, but to examine one major issue: how should the portrayal of moral evaluation on the tragic stage or in epic narrative be used as evidence for the history of Greek moral values?A very important proposition is stated inM&R127: ‘A drama is a practical work; it involves action. People appear on the stage and behave as they do in real life.’ With this proposition I agree, subject to three provisos, of which one limits its application and two amplify it. The limiting proviso is obvious.

A peek in the micro-sized world: a review of design principles, engineering tools, and applications of engineered microbial community

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 399-409
Author(s):  
Baizhen Gao ◽  
Rushant Sabnis ◽  
Tommaso Costantini ◽  
Robert Jinkerson ◽  
Qing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Community ◽  
Microbial Communities ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Microbial Interactions ◽  
Potential Applications ◽  
New Gene ◽  
Global Biogeochemical Cycles ◽  
Synthetic Microbial Communities

Microbial communities drive diverse processes that impact nearly everything on this planet, from global biogeochemical cycles to human health. Harnessing the power of these microorganisms could provide solutions to many of the challenges that face society. However, naturally occurring microbial communities are not optimized for anthropogenic use. An emerging area of research is focusing on engineering synthetic microbial communities to carry out predefined functions. Microbial community engineers are applying design principles like top-down and bottom-up approaches to create synthetic microbial communities having a myriad of real-life applications in health care, disease prevention, and environmental remediation. Multiple genetic engineering tools and delivery approaches can be used to ‘knock-in' new gene functions into microbial communities. A systematic study of the microbial interactions, community assembling principles, and engineering tools are necessary for us to understand the microbial community and to better utilize them. Continued analysis and effort are required to further the current and potential applications of synthetic microbial communities.

The Speech-Language Pathologist in the Public Schools: Preparation for Real Life Practices From the Perspective of a Speech-Language Pathology Program Coordinator

2010 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-65
Author(s):  
Francine Wenhardt
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
School Setting ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Effective School ◽  
Program Coordinator ◽  
Educational Preparation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Speech Language Pathologist ◽  
New Graduate ◽  
Language Pathology

Abstract The speech-language pathologist (SLP) working in the public schools has a wide variety of tasks. Educational preparation is not all that is needed to be an effective school-based SLP. As a SLP currently working in the capacity of a program coordinator, the author describes the skills required to fulfill the job requirements and responsibilities of the SLP in the school setting and advises the new graduate regarding the interview process and beginning a career in the public schools.

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