scholarly journals Sull’origine della poesia romanza: ipotesi andalusa e mediolatina alla luce del rapporto fra rima e melodia

2019 ◽  
Vol 135 (2) ◽  
pp. 535-582
Author(s):  
Federico Di Santo
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Musical Form ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Structural Relation ◽  
Opposite Conclusion ◽  
Lively Debate

AbstractWithin the long-standing, and yet still lively debate over the origin of Romance poetry in general, and of regular rhyme in particular, one key element appears to have been often overlooked: music. Although it is very well known that Troubadour lyric poems were meant to be sung, their melodic form has so far indisputably been considered to be independent from the formal structure of the texts. However, a radical reconsideration of this common belief, based on a brand-new approach that takes orality into account, leads to the opposite conclusion that regular rhyme schemes, at their origins, were indeed closely related to the musical form of the songs. Linking rhymes to music may therefore represent a potentially decisive argument in the quest for the origin of Romance lyric poetry. For, even if rhymes and rhyme schemes may be found in many different and independent literary traditions, their structural relation to musical form is by far much rarer, hence offering a much more specific hint about the origin of Vernacular lyric forms, which are based on regular rhyme schemes. Tracing this metrical-musical technique back to its roots, may validate once and for all one of the two main theories competing around the origin of Vernacular lyric poetry, namely the Medieval Latin and the Andalusian Arabic theory.

scholarly journals Discovering Eden: Rain, Cats and Women in Hemingway’s Garden

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-72
Author(s):  
Ghufran Abd Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Literary Work ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Garden Of Eden ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Female Presence ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Gender Criticism

Abstract The publication of The Garden of Eden in 1986 opened the gates of Hemingway’s exegesis to gender criticism, the result being a re-evaluation of the female presence in a traditional literary work devoted to the literary traditions of the personality and adventurous life of the writer that challenged the previous four decades of critical appraisal that insisted on what Broer and Holland called “superficial or misguided interpretations of Hemingway’s treatment of women and gender”. Our essay demonstrates this new approach to Hemingway’s work, with examples from “Cat in the Rain” and The Garden of Eden.

scholarly journals Valentin Timaru – The Concerto for Violin and Orchestra. The Ratio of Combining Formal Principles within the Genre

2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 96-106
Author(s):  
Emanuela-Fabiola Prip
Keyword(s):  
Formal Structure ◽  
Sonata Form ◽  
Musical Form

AbstractThe Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1976) uses aesthetic and stylistic features often found in Valentin Timaru’s compositions: the Romanian musical-folkloric expression, the modal-diatonic and the modal-chromatic language, the free chromaticism, the improvisational nature, the musical articulations with generative purpose, the cyclic thinking and structuring, the preoccupation with the musical form, the proportion and the alternance of the forms used within the genre, as well as the juxtaposition of different formal principles in one part. The four constitutive movements (Lamento, Melopoeia, Variations, and Epilogue) are connected through the thematic interdependence (parts I and IV), the abandonment of the classical formal structure (the sonata form) and the attacca connections.

A New Approach to Medieval Latin Drama

1925 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 239-271 ◽  
Author(s):  
George R. Coffman
Keyword(s):  
New Approach ◽  
Medieval Latin

INTERSUBJECTIVE BELIEF

Episteme ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivienne Brown
Keyword(s):  
Social Context ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
New Approach ◽  
New Model ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Mutual Belief

ABSTRACTThis paper proposes a new model of shared belief amongst individual subjects based on a new approach to theorising individual subjects in social context. In this approach, which I term the intersubjective approach, individual subjects are modelled in terms of the standpoint of each of us, thereby incorporating the phenomenological standpoint of an individual subject's inclusion of herself within the plurality, ‘us’ (a class in the distributive sense). This provides resources for a new model of shared belief, including common belief, in terms of intersubjective belief, which is an individual subject's belief that ‘each of us has the same belief that p’. The paper argues that the intersubjective model of shared belief provides a non-reductive alternative to the standard interactive model of mutual belief and common belief, and so provides a non-individualistic framework for analysing shared belief in social contexts. As an illustration, the intersubjective model of common belief is applied to the Hi-Lo game; the solution is (High, High).

Beyond Mimesis: Aristotle's Poetics in the Medieval Mediterranean

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (2) ◽  
pp. 583-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Mallette
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jorge Luis Borges ◽  
Medieval Literature ◽  
Vanishing Point ◽  
Medieval Latin ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
Modern France ◽  
Methodological Tool ◽  
National Literatures

La imagen que un solo hombre puede formar es la que no toca a ninguno. … El tiempo, que despoja los alcázares, enriquece los versos.—Jorge Luis Borges, “La busca de Averroes” (586)The image that a single man can form touches no one. … Time, which despoils fortresses, enriches poetry.How should literary historians aiming to describe literary traditions that predated the modern nation use the methodological tool kit developed contemporaneously with the European nationalisms? Can philology be separated from the logic of the nation and from the teleological vanishing point—the languages and literatures of (for instance) modern France, Spain, or Italy—that has traditionally provided a rationale for readings of medieval literature (and jobs for philologists)? Medieval literary historians have known for some time that we must get out of the habit of thinking in terms of the national literatures that would emerge centuries after the texts we study were written. And we have absorbed the lesson that the nineteenth-century philologists on whose shoulders we stand worked (frequently, if not systematically) under the influence of the nationalizing movements emerging as they wrote, so that their pronouncements on medieval texts must be read with appropriate caution. We have not, however, yet produced new geographic and historical formulations to replace the narrative that traces the origin of the modern European nations to a medieval Latin Christian crucible.

scholarly journals Selecting Judges in Poland and Germany: Challenges to the Rule of law in Europe and Propositions for a new Approach to Judicial Legitimacy

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-816 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Sanders ◽  
Luc von Danwitz
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Judicial Appointments ◽  
Lively Debate ◽  
German System ◽  
European Standards ◽  
Polish Government ◽  
German Constitutional Law ◽  
Selection Of

The recent reforms of the Polish Judiciary have sparked a lively debate in Europe on the importance of judicial independence. This Article deals with the new Polish system of selecting and appointing judges and critically assesses it in the light of European standards for judicial appointments. It then compares the new Polish system to the German system of selecting judges, which has been advanced as a point of reference for the reform by the Polish government. Finally, the Article reconsiders and challenges some of the established concepts of German constitutional law as to the selection of judges and judicial legitimacy.The Article was closed on September 2, 2017 and accepted for publication. Subsequent developments could be included until March 15, 2018. The authors would like to thank Judge Thomas Guddat and theDeutsch-Polnische Richtervereinigung(Association of German and Polish Judges) for providing valuable details on the reforms in Poland.

The Classification of Greek Lyric Poetry

1955 ◽  
Vol 5 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 157-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. E. Harvey
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Scanty Information ◽  
Systematic Collection ◽  
Of Greece

Many years ago Wilamowitz desiderated a systematic collection of the texts which relate to the different types of poetry composed by the great lyric poets of Greece. He hoped that if we could only crystallize our admittedly scanty information about the characteristics of, say, the Paean or the Dirge, we might be able to reach a slightly better understanding than we have now of the formal structure and artistic design of the poems and fragments which have come down to us under these titles. Indeed, this kind of knowledge is very important.

Flavius Josephus, Nehemiah, and a Study in Self-Presentation

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 345-365
Author(s):  
Davina Grojnowski
Keyword(s):  
Self Presentation ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Literary Traditions ◽  
The Relationship

Scholars have frequently noted that in his writings, Josephus consistently styles himself as standing in the tradition of the biblical prophets and that he remodels his retelling of the prophets’ narratives to align them more closely with himself. What scholars have largely overlooked, however, is the fact that in his autobiography, Josephus minimizes the prophetic allusions, including instead subtle details that are reminiscent of Nehemiah and his actions. This paper, therefore, offers a new approach to the relationship between Josephus and Nehemiah: rather than comparing Josephus’ presentation of Nehemiah in his Jewish Antiquities 11.159-183 with the various extant literary traditions, this paper discusses those passages in the Vita subtly alluding to Nehemiah. The results of this analysis will impact on our understanding of how Nehemiah was perceived by later authors, and argue that the relationship between Josephus and Nehemiah was more profound than a mere retelling in the Jewish Antiquities.

Stabilization of third order differential equation by delay distributed feedback control with unbounded memory

2019 ◽  
Vol 69 (5) ◽  
pp. 1165-1176 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Domoshnitsky ◽  
Irina Volinsky ◽  
Anatoly Polonsky
Keyword(s):  
Differential Equations ◽  
Common Belief ◽  
Third Order ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Input Control ◽  
Second Derivatives ◽  
Exponentially Stable ◽  
T Tau ◽  
Derivatives Of ◽  
Mathematical Literature

Abstract There are almost no results on the exponential stability of differential equations with unbounded memory in mathematical literature. This article aimes to partially fill this gap. We propose a new approach to the study of stability of integro-differential equations with unbounded memory of the following forms $$\begin{array}{} \begin{split} \displaystyle x'''(t)+\sum_{i=1}^{m}\int\limits_{t-\tau_{i}(t)}^{t}b_{i}(t)\text{e}^{-\alpha _{i}(t-s) }x(s)\text{d} s &=0, \\ x'''(t)+\sum_{i=1}^{m}\int\limits_{0}^{t-\tau _{i}(t)}b_{i}(t)\text{e}^{-\alpha _{i}(t-s) }x(s)\text{d} s &= 0, \end{split} \end{array}$$ with measurable essentially bounded bi(t) and τi(t), i = 1, …, m. We demonstrate that, under certain conditions on the coefficients, integro-differential equations of these forms are exponentially stable if the delays τi(t), i = 1, …, m, are small enough. This opens new possibilities for stabilization by distributed input control. According to common belief this sort of stabilization requires first and second derivatives of x. Results obtained in this paper prove that this is not the case.

scholarly journals Toward a language-theoretic foundation for planning and filtering

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 236-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fatemeh Zahra Saberifar ◽  
Shervin Ghasemlou ◽  
Dylan A Shell ◽  
Jason M O’Kane
Keyword(s):  
Data Structure ◽  
Formal Language ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Language Theory ◽  
Hybrid Automata ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Algorithmic Question ◽  
Single Data ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Planning Problems

We address problems underlying the algorithmic question of automating the co-design of robot hardware in tandem with its apposite software. Specifically, we consider the impact that degradations of a robot’s sensor and actuation suites may have on the ability of that robot to complete its tasks. We introduce a new formal structure that generalizes and consolidates a variety of well-known structures including many forms of plans, planning problems, and filters, into a single data structure called a procrustean graph, and give these graph structures semantics in terms of ideas based in formal language theory. We describe a collection of operations on procrustean graphs (both semantics-preserving and semantics-mutating), and show how a family of questions about the destructiveness of a change to the robot hardware can be answered by applying these operations. We also highlight the connections between this new approach and existing threads of research, including combinatorial filtering, Erdmann’s strategy complexes, and hybrid automata.

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