Popular Biography

2020 ◽  
pp. 44-57
Author(s):  
Ioannis M. Konstantakos
Keyword(s):  
Wisdom Literature ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
Oral Storytelling ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Classical Greece ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Alexander Romance ◽  
Life Of Aesop

Ancient popular biographies are distinguished by a set of common characteristics: primacy of content over form, simple one-dimensional characterization, a non-organic accumulative structure, circulation in variant versions, wide appeal across space and time, and heavy dependence on oral storytelling materials. The various traditions regarding the Seven Sages current in classical Greece were a form of collective popular oral biography of this group and influenced later biographical compositions significantly. The protagonists of these stories are often shown in roles typically found in the folktale repertoire. The Life of Aesop is an exemplary representative of popular biography. It combines old legends about Aesop, anecdotes borrowed from other cultural traditions, pieces of wisdom literature, and widespread folktales. It incorporates many specimens of folk genres (fables, scabrous novellas, proverbs, riddles) and reproduces the structure of Aesopic fables on a magnified scale. Other biographical compositions containing such popular elements (Life of Secundus, Alexander Romance, Lives of Homer) are also briefly discussed.

Beyond the Fife and Drum: Northern Protestant Working Class Cultures

Public Voices ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 73
Author(s):  
Paul Burgess
Keyword(s):  
Northern Ireland ◽  
Working Class ◽  
World Order ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Dimensional Image ◽  
The Troubles ◽  
Meaning Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
Symbolic Systems

The author contends that throughout the duration of the present conflict in NorthernIreland, the world has been repeatedly given a one-dimensional image of this culture depicting it as mainly a product of ethnicity and also a reflection of class sentiment and lived experience.As drummer and songwriter of Ruefrex, a musical band internationally renowned for its songs about the Troubles conflict in Northern Ireland, Burgess discusses the need to express Protestant cultural traditions and identity through words and music. Citing Weber’s argument that individuals need to understand the world and their environment and that this understanding is influenced by perceptions of world order and attitudes and interpretations of symbolic systems or structures, the author argues that losing the importance of symbolic structures in relation to actual events will result in failure to understand why communities embrace meaning systems that are centrally informed by symbol and ritual. In his mind, rather than seeking to promote an understanding of Protestant or Catholic reality, it is important to speculate how the practice of difference might be used in developing any kind of reality of co-operation and co-ordination

A time-dependent model for high-pressure discharges in narrow ablative capillaries

1993 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Zoler ◽  
S. Cuperman ◽  
J. Ashkenazy ◽  
M. Caner ◽  
Z. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Equation Of State ◽  
Time Dependent ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Plasma Sources ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Dependent Model ◽  
Energy Equations ◽  
Time Dependent Model

A time-dependent quasi-one-dimensional model is developed for studying high- pressure discharges in ablative capillaries used, for example, as plasma sources in electrothermal launchers. The main features of the model are (i) consideration of ablation effects in each of the continuity, momentum and energy equations; (ii) use of a non-ideal equation of state; and (iii) consideration of space- and time-dependent ionization.

The Elastic-Viscoelastic Correspondence Principle for Functionally Graded Materials, Revisited

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 359-363 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Mukherjee ◽  
Glaucio H. Paulino
Keyword(s):  
Functionally Graded Materials ◽  
Functionally Graded Material ◽  
Correspondence Principle ◽  
Functionally Graded ◽  
Graded Materials ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Graded Material ◽  
Nonhomogeneous Materials ◽  
Exponentially Graded

Paulino and Jin [Paulino, G. H., and Jin, Z.-H., 2001, “Correspondence Principle in Viscoelastic Functionally Graded Materials,” ASME J. Appl. Mech., 68, pp. 129–132], have recently shown that the viscoelastic correspondence principle remains valid for a linearly isotropic viscoelastic functionally graded material with separable relaxation (or creep) functions in space and time. This paper revisits this issue by addressing some subtle points regarding this result and examines the reasons behind the success or failure of the correspondence principle for viscoelastic functionally graded materials. For the inseparable class of nonhomogeneous materials, the correspondence principle fails because of an inconsistency between the replacements of the moduli and of their derivatives. A simple but informative one-dimensional example, involving an exponentially graded material, is used to further clarify these reasons.

scholarly journals The Cultural Revolution in David Lodge’s Changing Places

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
AWEJ-tls for Translation & Literary Studies ◽  
Noureddine Friji
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effects ◽  
University Students ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Revolution ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Cultural Traditions ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
German Philosopher ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The University

Utilizing Herbert Marcuse’s One-Dimensional Man (1962) and Counterrevolution and Revolt (1972) as a theoretical backdrop, this article seeks to gauge the extent to which the teachings of the German philosopher and political theorist lay the groundwork for the protests mounted by the university students in David Lodge’s campus novel Changing Places (1975). Admittedly, the Student Revolution spilled over into numerous fields. However, given space restrictions, only its cultural manifestations will be examined. It will be clear that at the root of Lodge’s students’ uprising lies an overpowering urge to break with the cultural heritage and with the academics upholding it. It will be equally clear, nonetheless, that these young activists’ faith in Marcuse’s political doctrine is unwelcome to conservative academics on the ground that it has diverse adverse effects on universities. Not only are politically oriented texts and discourses given precedence over traditional ones but also teachers and administrators are, at times, hindered from doing their duties. The plausible conclusion to draw, in the light of the research’s findings, is that although cultural revolutions undeniably pave the way for a number of personal and collective achievements and help us modernize many aspects of life, they should not blind us to the enduring significance of previous cultural traditions and of the aesthetic value of literary works.

One dimensional periodic structures in space and time

Biosystems ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 77-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoltán B. Váradi ◽  
Mihály T. Beck
Keyword(s):  
Periodic Structures ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Space And Time

Point-based polygonal models for random graphs

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Arak ◽  
P. Clifford ◽  
D. Surgailis
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Particle System ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Markov Random ◽  
Alternative Description ◽  
Polygonal Models ◽  
Birth Death

We define a class of two-dimensional Markov random graphs with I, V, T and Y-shaped nodes (vertices). These are termed polygonal models. The construction extends our earlier work [1]– [5]. Most of the paper is concerned with consistent polygonal models which are both stationary and isotropic and which admit an alternative description in terms of the trajectories in space and time of a one-dimensional particle system with motion, birth, death and branching. Examples of computer simulations based on this description are given.

Point-based polygonal models for random graphs

1993 ◽  
Vol 25 (02) ◽  
pp. 348-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Arak ◽  
P. Clifford ◽  
D. Surgailis
Keyword(s):  
Computer Simulations ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Particle System ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
One Dimensional ◽  
Space And Time ◽  
Markov Random ◽  
Alternative Description ◽  
Polygonal Models ◽  
Birth Death

We define a class of two-dimensional Markov random graphs with I, V, T and Y-shaped nodes (vertices). These are termed polygonal models. The construction extends our earlier work [1]– [5]. Most of the paper is concerned with consistent polygonal models which are both stationary and isotropic and which admit an alternative description in terms of the trajectories in space and time of a one-dimensional particle system with motion, birth, death and branching. Examples of computer simulations based on this description are given.

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