scholarly journals ‚Störende‘ und ‚gestörte‘ Tänze – Zyklizität und zentrierte Wahrnehmung als Bausteine einer impliziten Poetik des Tanzens in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 308-330
Author(s):  
Stefan Abel
Keyword(s):  
Fifteenth Century ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Virtual Space ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Spatial Metaphors ◽  
Cyclic Motion ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Way

AbstractA vernacular fifteenth-century sermon tells us, in order to warn of the threats to spiritual welfare posed by dance, that cyclic motion and centering of sensory impressions – amongst them intimate conversation – are essential elements of dance. When blending out the parenesis, implicit poetics of medieval dance can be distilled from that sermon. The way how these essential elements of dance are used for generating disruptions within literary plots will be demonstrated in three literary texts dating from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century: Disruptions in connection with dance occur when contrary concepts of motion clash with each other, for example the linearity of the chivalrous way through the Other World with the cyclicity of round dances (‚Prosa-Lancelot‘). ‚Der Württemberger‘, however, collides two contrary concepts of time which can be paraphrased as spatial metaphors, namely the linearity of earthly life which collides with the cyclicity of eternal damnation, a collision symbolized by the expulsion of life out of the dance of the death. Finally in ‚Ritter Sociabilis‘, dance generates a virtual space which subverts the courtly society. The protagonists of all these texts differently manage to resolve disruptions, namely by redemption, by repentance, or by continuing disruptions which they have caused themselves.

Shifting voices, shifting worlds

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosaleen Howard
Keyword(s):  
Social Interaction ◽  
Narrative Discourse ◽  
Epistemic Modality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Southern Peru ◽  
Cultural Content ◽  
Central Highlands ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Way

This paper examines evidentiality and epistemic modality in Quechua narrative discourse from the central highlands of Peru. Huamalíes Quechua falls into the broad Quechua ‘I’ dialect grouping established by Alfredo Torero (1964); evidential usage here can be compared to that of southern Conchucos Quechua as studied by Diane and Daniel Hintz (2007; 2006) while it differs in interesting ways from the Quechua ‘II’ dialects of southern Peru as studied by Faller (2002; 2006). The analysis focuses on an orally performed traditional narrative that deals with the theme of social interaction between a human protagonist and a spirit being of the ‘other world’. It describes the human protagonist’s gradual realization of the nature of the spirit being with whom he has become involved; evidential and epistemic markings grammatically structure this transition from conjecture, to supposition, to direct witness. The aim is to show how the story’s cultural content, and the way in which evidentials and epistemic modality are operationalized, are mutually entailing. Form and content taken together throw light both on how evidentiality and epistemic modality work in social interaction and on how Amerindian understandings of the interface between the ‘natural’ and ‘supernatural’ worlds, and between ‘humans’ and ‘non-humans’, inform grammatical usage.

scholarly journals Combinatorial Principle in the Use of Drum (Kendhang) Formulae in Gamelan Music of Yogyakarta. From Prescriptive Models to the Interpretation of a Composition: the Case of Kendhang Pinatut.

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Luca Pietrosanti
Keyword(s):  
Essential Elements ◽  
The Other ◽  
Combinatorial Principle ◽  
Central Java ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Way ◽  
A Performance

In this paper, I address the question to the use of drums (kendhang) in the traditional Gamelan music of Yogyakarta, by presenting some prescriptive models (or formulas). I illustrate how, the use of different prescriptive models in a composition follow what I labeled as “Combinatorial Principle”. In order to describe the essential elements of this principle, I will analyze the modalities of interaction between a very flexible drum formula (known as pinatut) and three other prescriptive models for drum within some exemplary pieces of traditional Gamelan music. The concept of combinatorial principle illustrated in these pages, on the one hand explains the way of interaction between the drum’s rhythmic formulas and their capacity to influence the choices made by the entire orchestra during a performance; on the other hand, through this principle we are able to trace a path that attempts to understand the “deep structures” that are the basics of making music in Gamelan tout court. Through the perspective of the combinatorial principle it is possible to analyze the prescriptive models and techniques of many other instruments of the Gamelan of central Java.

scholarly journals Re-rigging Othering: Subversive Infantilisation in Contemporary Bosnian-Herzegovinian Prose

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259-1273
Author(s):  
Fedja Borčak
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Bosnia And Herzegovina ◽  
The Other ◽  
Subject Position ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Western Discourse ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Way

In this article I put forward the concept of subversive infantilisation to designate a phenomenon in contemporary Bosnian literature, which by using a certain kind of childish outlook on the world undermines paternalistic and balkanist Western discourse on Bosnia and Herzegovina. By analysing primarily the portrayal of the role of mass media in a few literary texts, principally books by Nenad Veličkovié and Miljenko Jergovié, I highlight the way in which these texts “re-rig” and by means of irony and exaggeration illuminate the problematic logic inherent in the subject position from which one represents the other. Textual characteristics of subversive infantilisation are contextualised further and seen as a discursive continuation of experiences of the 1990s war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Exile

2021 ◽  
pp. 398-414
Author(s):  
Johannes Bartuschat
Keyword(s):  
Major Element ◽  
Human Condition ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Third ◽  
Vita Nuova ◽  
Moral Lesson ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Way ◽  
The Human Condition

This chapter examines the way the poet represents his exile. It is composed of three parts: the first considers the way Dante handles his exile in relation to authorship, and reveals how he constructs his authority from his position as an exile in the Convivio, De vulgari eloquentia, and his Epistles. The second analyses exile as a major element of the autobiographical dimension of the Commedia. It shows that the necessity to grasp the moral lesson of the exile constitutes the very heart of the poem. The third part explores the relationship between exile and pilgrimage, the latter being, from the Vita Nuova onwards, a symbol of the human condition, and demonstrates how Dante interprets his experience both as an exile and as a wanderer in the other world in the light of pilgrimage.

scholarly journals Tra lontananza e vicinanza: gli italiani e gli sloveni nel romanzo contemporaneo sloveno in Italia

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maja Smotlak
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Political Context ◽  
National Identities ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
National Minority ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Friuli Venezia Giulia ◽  
The Way

Border places are of particular interest when it comes to identifying the way in which groups of different nationalities perceive the neighbour, the Other. One of these areas is also Friuli Venezia Giulia, where other nationalities, among which also the Slovenes, have coexisted near their Italian majority for centuries. Since the end of the 19th century until today, the Slovenes of this region have frequently addressed their national minority position through literature. Through it they formed a specific image of themselves and of the neighbouring populations in every period. Taking into consideration some contemporary Slovenian novels written in Italy in the last twenty-six years, the paper aims to investigate their representation of the Other seen as different and external to the community. The questions therefore are: do Slovenes living in Italy perceive as the Other mostly Italians or the members of other nationalities? What are the main reasons for the identification of a subject as different from them? What sort of hierarchy is being established between the various national identities within the examined literary texts? With the help of the imagological method, this article will offer some tentative answers to the questions raised, by considering also the socio-political context.

Saints and sinners. Coins in medieval ritual context

2017 ◽  
Vol 72 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 29-38
Author(s):  
Lucia Travaini
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Other World ◽  
Ritual Context ◽  
The Way

This article is a revised version of papers prepared for the conferences in Cambridge and Oslo. It is focused on the way how to interpret coins occurring in the medieval graves of saints as well as in the graves of ordinary people defined by L. Travaini as ‘sinners’. In the case of the term ‘ritual’, the author is interested in its general religious use, public and private, having in mind that medieval people had an uninterrupted relationship with the other world. Angels, saints and demons were integrated into any ritual, even in that which can appear as ‘civic’ today, including blessing and presence of clerics. In that way, any contexts – once seen as ‘ritual’ – must be seen as ‘economic’ in present numismatic research, and the author shows it on concrete examples from Italy and other European countries. Some finds, once seen as signs of economic activities, can be seen as rituals today.

The Way to the Other World in Medieval Literature and Art

Folklore ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 97 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Dinzelbacher
Keyword(s):  
Medieval Literature ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other World ◽  
The Way

scholarly journals Orientalism and Representation of Muslim Women as “Sexual Objects”

1970 ◽  
pp. 23-32
Author(s):  
Hazel Simons
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Muslim Women ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Way

Edward Said’s book Orientalism paved the way for a new discourse on the Colonial and Western interpretations of the Orient and the Middle East. During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries especially, Europeans visiting the “East” recorded their travels in literary texts, autobiographical writing, paintings and photography. Said suggests that within these works, the creators transposed their own ideas and pre-conceptions of the East, thus creating and mythologizing a view that belonged not to reality, but to a colonial concept representing domination. Many of these Orientalist works project an image of the East as different, the “Other”, and objectify and scrutinize all its elements.

scholarly journals About vozho, the Spirit of Transition Time and Holiness among Udmurt and Komi

2021 ◽  
pp. 83-106
Author(s):  
Aado Lintrop ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Well Being ◽  
The Other ◽  
Transition Time ◽  
Central Character ◽  
Summer Solstice ◽  
Winter Solstice ◽  
The World ◽  
Other World ◽  
Transitional Time ◽  
The Way

This article concentrates on one very central character in Udmurt mythology. It is a character typical of the transitional time around the solstices, an ambiguous and liminal time, which requires particular caution from the humans to protect themselves from dangerous interference from the world beyond. This character, whose name, vozho, appears in the Udmurt name of these periods, vozho-dyr, the time of vozho for the winter solstice and invozho, heaven-vozho for the summer solstice, is also a water spirit. I reflect also on other water spirits and on their peculiarities. This analysis leads me to reflect on the origin and the ramifications of the concept behind vozho with its linguistic correlations, the way it is articulated and how it sheds light on the concept of holy in the Permic languages and for the Permians, Udmurt and Komi. This leads me to reflect on the correlations between liminality and holiness, the liminal places and spaces and their value, and the particular characters in the mummery festivities that characterise this transitional time and which are connected both to the spirits of the other world and to the dead ancestors, who are among the main providers of well-being in the Udmurt world.

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