This Present Absence: The Generative Power of Epistolary Form

Abstract: Like the Church Fathers before him, Petrarch was forced to defend secular learning against its detractors, and his defenses draw on many of the same arguments that Augustine and Jerome had used. In these defenses he blends classical rhetoric and Christian values, and his procedures also follow the traditions of classical rhetoric, relying on the epistolary form and utilizing the Ciceronian manner of debating all topics from opposite standpoints. Perhaps, however, because his indecisiveness complemented the classical rhetorical premise that many issues present many possible resolutions, Petrarch also rejects secular learning in some of his writings. His arguments are therefore conclusive only within their unique rhetorical situations.

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Кыргыз адабиятындагы эпистолярдык форма жана анын табияты

Vestnik Bishkek Humanities University ◽

10.35254/bhu.2019.47.1 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 59-62

Author(s):

Г.С. Бакирова

Keyword(s):

Key Words ◽

Epistolary Form

Аннотация: Изилдөөгө алынган кыргыз адабият таануусунда аталган тема боюнча атайын изилдөөлөрдүн жоктугу эпистолага жанрдык түр же форма катары атайын конкреттүү баа берилбей келаткандыгы бул проблемага көз салууга түрткү берди. Аталган макалада “эпистоляр” сөзүнүн терминдик мааниси, эпистоланын дүйнөлүк адабияттагы орду аныкталды. Орус адабиятындагы эписто ланын изилдениши, орус адабий чыгармаларында жанр катары калыптангандыгы каралды. Ошону менен бирге эпистоланын поэтикасы, кыргыз адабиятындагы эпистолярдык форма түшүнүгү, анын согуш жылдарындагы көркөм чыгармаларда ыкма катары колдонулгандыгы тууралуу сөз болду. Эпистолярдык форманын кыргыз адабиятындагы калыптануусу, табияты жөнүндө маалымат берилди. Түйүндүү сөздөр: эпистолярдык жанр, эпистола, нааме, эпистолярдык форма, поэзия, проза, композициялык элемент, поэтика, эпистола адабияты, адресат, автордук дилбаян, кат, эпистола табияты, лиризм, драматизм, поэтикалык кеп. Аннотация: В данной статье рассматривается толкование термина “эпистола” и его место в мировой литературе, а также становление данного жанра в русской литературе. Анализируется формирование понятия эпистола, его природа в кыргызской литературе как формы изложения произведения. Рассматривается понятие эпистола и его использование в годы ВОВ в кыргызской литературе. Ключевые слова: эпистолярный жанр, эпистола, нааме, эпистолярная форма, поэзия, проза, композиционный элемент, литературная эпистола, адресат, авторское сочинение, письмо, природа эпистолы, лиризм, драматизм, поэтическая речь. Аnnotation: This article discusses the term «epistle», nature epistles and its formation in Kyrgyz literature as a form of presentation of the content of the work. Key words: epistolary, epistle, epistolary form, poetry, prose, compositional element, literary epistles, destination, authors essay, letter, nature epistles, lyricism, drama, poetic speech

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The Alphabet and its Legacy

The Oxford Handbook of the Phoenician and Punic Mediterranean ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499341.013.17 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 240-255

Author(s):

Madadh Richey

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Basin ◽

Technological Development ◽

Greek Language ◽

Writing Systems ◽

Present Contribution ◽

Generative Power ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

Alphabetic Writing ◽

The Mediterranean Basin

The alphabet employed by the Phoenicians was the inheritor of a long tradition of alphabetic writing and was itself adapted for use throughout the Mediterranean basin by numerous populations speaking many languages. The present contribution traces the origins of the alphabet in Sinai and the Levant before discussing different alphabetic standardizations in Ugarit and Phoenician Tyre. The complex adaptation of the latter for representation of the Greek language is described in detail, then some brief attention is given to likely—Etruscan and other Italic alphabets—and possible (Iberian and Berber) descendants of the Phoenician alphabet. Finally, it is stressed that current research does not view the Phoenician and other alphabets as inherently simpler, more easily learned, or more democratic than other writing systems. The Phoenician alphabet remains, nevertheless, an impressive technological development worthy, especially by virtue of its generative power, of detailed study ranging from paleographic and orthographic specifications to social and political contextualization.

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THE GENERATIVE POWER OF AIR FREIGHT IN THE TRADE OPENNESS - ECONOMIC GROWTH NEXUS IN AFRICAN COUNTRIES

South African Journal of Economics ◽

10.1111/j.1813-6982.2008.00194.x ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 76 (3) ◽

pp. 493-512 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

chun-ping chang ◽

yung-hsiang ying

Keyword(s):

Economic Growth ◽

Trade Openness ◽

African Countries ◽

Generative Power ◽

Air Freight

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A generative power-law search tree model

Computers & Operations Research ◽

10.1016/j.cor.2008.08.017 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 36 (8) ◽

pp. 2376-2386

Author(s):

Alda Carvalho ◽

Nuno Crato ◽

Carla Gomes

Keyword(s):

Power Law ◽

Search Tree ◽

Tree Model ◽

Generative Power

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Generative Power of Matrix Insertion-Deletion Systems with Context-Free Insertion or Deletion

Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ◽

10.1007/978-3-319-41312-9_4 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 35-48 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Henning Fernau ◽

Lakshmanan Kuppusamy ◽

Indhumathi Raman

Keyword(s):

Generative Power ◽

Context Free

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The Diary and the Epistolary Form

Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel ◽

10.4324/9781315561431-16 ◽

2016 ◽

pp. 91-110

Keyword(s):

Epistolary Form

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Afterword

Conflict and Society ◽

10.3167/arcs.2018.040107 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 4 (1) ◽

pp. 85-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Peter Hervik

Keyword(s):

Political Violence ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Moral Outrage ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Generative Power ◽

Negative Change

This afterword offers reflections on some major points of this section concerning the generative power linking moral outrage to political violence. The authors have successfully taken up a topic of immense relevance and urgency in contemporary society. Their efforts are a first important step to address this from an empirical, analytical, and theoretical framework. In the afterword, I seek to add further perspectives to some of the findings, including a focus on moral outrage that situates it not strictly within personality as a preexisting universal that waits for someone to wake it up but rather in an approach to emotions as embedded within cultural understandings with an emphasis on the strategic side of the production of moral outrage in creating both positive and negative change.

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