scholarly journals AESTHETIC AND COGNITIVE VALUES OF SEAMUS HEANEY’S WINTERING OUT: A FRYEAN APPROACH TO SELECTED POEMS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 722-729
Author(s):  
Amjad Alsyouf
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Seamus Heaney ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
Cognitive Value ◽  
Cognitive Values ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Critical Model ◽  
Poetic Creation ◽  
Aesthetic Values

Purpose of the study: This study investigates the relevance of the aesthetic values to the cognitive values in the poetry of the Anglo-Irish poet Seamus Heaney 1939-2013. It examines “The Tollund Man,” “Servant Boy,” “Gifts of Rain” and “Limbo” from his poetry collection Wintering Out (1972), and focuses on their treatment of rebirth imagery and archetypes aiming to address their aesthetic and conceptual features. Methodology: The study approaches the poetry of Seamus Heaney using Northrop Frye’s critical archetypal approach to literature. It is based on examining the mythical aspects and archetypes of the literary text as a way to highlight its value, whether the aesthetic which is concerned with the artistic side of literature or the cognitive which is related to its epistemological value. Main Findings: The study concludes with the assumption that Heaney’s poetry, which is part of the modern poetic tradition, occasionally resorts to mythology as a way of intensifying its both aesthetic and cognitive values. The reason lies in the beauty mythology adds to the poetic creation, and the focus it sheds on the thematic features of the work. Applications of this study: This study proposes a creative-critical model that can help the scholars of literature, particularly those who study the cognitive value of literature and the literary archetypal theory to employ while dealing with literary texts that utilize mythical archetypes so as to distinguish their aesthetic and cognitive features. Novelty/Originality of this study: This study proposes an application of Frye’s theories to Heaney’s poetry which former scholarship on Heaney, and to the best of my knowledge, hasn’t examined. Besides, Frye’s archetypal theory is applied in a creative way seeking to examine the mythical aspects of Heaney’s poetry aiming to emphasize aspects that are not only cognitive and thematic but also cultural and aesthetic.

scholarly journals Topos of irony in the receptive-interpretative space of the postmodern literary text

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-132
Author(s):  
Anna V. Kuznetsova
Keyword(s):  
Specific Area ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Regulatory Mechanisms ◽  
Art World ◽  
Forming Mechanism ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Aesthetic Practice ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Language Text

The article is devoted to the main semantic and text-forming mechanism for organizing a literary text - the topos of irony from the standpoint of establishing its role in the reception and interpretation of the postmodern worldview embodied in such a text. Since reality is not conceived of postmodernly outside of the language (text), the need for receptive competence and the handling of information defined by a specific area of ​​communication and possessing accuracy increases. The recipient focuses only on the necessary part of the information flow, so the text is the basis of the methodology of world perception. Cultural codes and cultural competencies acquire the properties of regulatory mechanisms capable of selecting perceived facts. The relevance of the article consists in establishing those correlative relationships and factors that determine the reception and interpretation of the postmodern literary text. These factors include topos of irony, the correct decoding of which is due to presuppositions characteristic of the representative of a particular socio-linguistic and cultural collective. All postmodern literary texts are characterized by a playful character, which, in turn, now determines the foundation of artistic creativity in general, and not just those texts that put comic or only satire as part of the comic in the center of the art world, determining their aesthetic tasks. The purpose of the article is to determine the ontological status of the topos of irony in the receptive-interpretative space of the postmodern literary text. The topos of irony in the postmodern literary text is the textual and style-forming principle of the aesthetic practice of a particular author, the purpose of which is to engage the recipient in the dialogue, co-creation in receptive and interpretive activities, “unrolling” the literary text itself in the coordinates of the ironic and game scenario. Since irony is a kind of intellectual provocation that allows the author to identify “his” reader, there is also the need to consider the topos of irony in relation to the specifics of a socio-linguistic and cultural collective.

scholarly journals A Reading of Fragments 926(a) and 926(g) PMG within the Context of the New Music

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31
Author(s):  
Vasiliki Kousoulini ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Classical Tradition ◽  
Lyric Poetry ◽  
New Music ◽  
Poetic Tradition ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Generic Quality

There has been much controversy regarding the date, the performative context, and the generic quality of fragment 926 PMG, which has been preserved on papyrus (P. Oxy. 9 + P. Oxy 2687) in a rhythmical treatise by an unknown author. The verse fragments on this papyrus were composed in iambic dactyls (∪ — ∪ –) and used as examples of the occurrence of syncope in various lyric meters. Fragments 926(a) and (g) PMG are from a composition performed by a maiden chorus which bear similarities to Alcman’s partheneia and have affinities with archaic epic and lyric poetry. Supposedly, these fragments might have been fragments of partheneia composed in the time of the New Music. Nonetheless, they are not shaped according to the bulk of the aesthetic values and the compositional rules of the New Music. These fragments seem to belong to cultic songs created for maiden choruses, possibly, to honor Dionysus. The alternative is that they imitate such songs within a dramatic context. We may assume that these quasi-dithyrambic partheneia were composed to serve religious needs or at least imitated cultic songs. They looked backward to the archaic and early classical tradition of partheneia, and their existence is an indication that, in the days of the New Music, there was a poetic tradition upheld by “reactionary” poets.

TRADITIONS OF POSITIVISM IN THE CONTEXT OF THE POLISH-UKRAINIAN BORDERLAND

2019 ◽  
pp. 100-104
Author(s):  
Bogdana Goncharenko
Keyword(s):  
Intercultural Communication ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
World Picture ◽  
Comparative Aspect ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic

The article examines the traditions of Polish literary of positivism in the context of the Polish-Ukrainian bor- derland. The issues of collective identity in the context of literary models of images and concepts of both Own and Strange, as artistic markers of the polyethnic society of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples of this epoch are also considered. Draws attention to the processes of changing the image of a Ukrainian as another in the Polish literary text. Beginning with the first written references to the cultural and historical dialogue between the two ethnic groups, the Ukrainian- Polish ties have changed. These are the influences of the Ukrainian language in Polish literary texts as far back as the XVI century. The Cossacks’ interest in this period, especially in the context of wars with Cossacks and Turks, is intensifying during this period. The Ukrainian-Polish cultural discourse is considered in the context of the communicative relations of His-Other, while changing the cognitive completeness of both terms during the history of relations and coexistence of both peoples in the his- torical retrospection. Understanding the cultural Polish-Ukrainian frontier as a result of the joint efforts of the participants in the cul- tural process, which created a separate world picture of specific codes of intercultural communication, current research on these phenomena is being conducted by modern scholars, in particular, in the context of artistic markers of the polyethnic society of this epoch of Own– Strange – Another at the end of the nineteenth century. are obviously funda- mentally different from their interpretation in the era of romanticism and in the works of Polish romantic writers of the “Ukrainian school”. In comparative aspect of the research work compares the dynamics of the processes in Polish and Ukrainian lit- erature of the ХІХ century, their typology taking into account the absorption positivist ideas of systematic features of the phenomenological paradigm of ethnic and cultural artistic patterns in both literatures, defined the aesthetic specificity of interethnic positivism, given the special condition of the ХІХ century society, ethnicity and culture of both peoples.

scholarly journals Stylistic Use of Structural Meaning in Kanafani's Men in the Sun

2020 ◽  
pp. 92-98
Author(s):  
Omer Elsheikh Hago Elmahdi ◽  
Abdulrahman Mokbel Mahyoub Hezam
Keyword(s):  
English Translation ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Rhetorical Questions ◽  
Aesthetic Values

This study aims at stylistically analyzing Men in the Sun in terms of the use of rhetorical questions and polyphony. The main objective is to show the contribution of these stylistic features (rhetorical questions and use of polyphony) in construing meaning and heightening the aesthetic values of novella and show how focus on specific stylistic features helps in analyzing a literary text. The researchers used the analytical approach to examine how the use of rhetorical questions and polyphony helps in constructing the meaning of the novella and highlighting its main themes. This study will be helpful to students of literature who want to better understand stylistic analysis and how writers use stylistic devices to enhance the meaning they want to convey. The study could also serve as a springboard for further studies in this area and could promote academic discourse on stylistic analysis of various Arabic literary works in English translation.

scholarly journals Verbal Art: From the Polyphony of the Word to Non-Verbality

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1-2 (6)) ◽  
pp. 109-114
Author(s):  
Seda Gasparyan
Keyword(s):  
Literary Text ◽  
Verbal Art ◽  
Decisive Importance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The article examines the complicated issue of the perception and understanding of a literary text. The research has the poetic word in its core which demonstrates an explicit tendency to expand its semantic and stylistic opportunities in the context of the work taking on new emotive-expressive charge. The polyphonic realization of the word obtains a decisive importance in terms of the non-verbality of the literary text taking it beyond the level of the nominative function of the word and participating in the formation of the system of the aesthetic values of the piece of work.

Bleibende Aufgaben einer phänomenologischen Literaturtheorie

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 265-273
Author(s):  
Eckhard Lobsien
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Radical Theory ◽  
Theory Of Reading ◽  
Phenomenological Point

Abstract What sort of object is a literary text? From a phenomenological point of view - phenomenology considered as both a radical theory of reading and a theory of radical reading - a range of answers arise, many of them tinged with deconstructive momentum. This paper aims at pointing out some basic issues in reading literary texts, offering ten theses on the enduring tasks of phenomenological literary theory.

scholarly journals Can we measure beauty? Computational evaluation of coral reef aesthetics

PeerJ ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. e1390 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas F. Haas ◽  
Marine Guibert ◽  
Anja Foerschner ◽  
Tim Co ◽  
Sandi Calhoun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coral Reef ◽  
Coral Reefs ◽  
Local Population ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Monitoring Tool ◽  
Photographic Images ◽  
Aesthetic Appearance ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Monitoring Protocols ◽  
Aesthetic Values

The natural beauty of coral reefs attracts millions of tourists worldwide resulting in substantial revenues for the adjoining economies. Although their visual appearance is a pivotal factor attracting humans to coral reefs current monitoring protocols exclusively target biogeochemical parameters, neglecting changes in their aesthetic appearance. Here we introduce a standardized computational approach to assess coral reef environments based on 109 visual features designed to evaluate the aesthetic appearance of art. The main feature groups include color intensity and diversity of the image, relative size, color, and distribution of discernable objects within the image, and texture. Specific coral reef aesthetic values combining all 109 features were calibrated against an established biogeochemical assessment (NCEAS) using machine learning algorithms. These values were generated for ∼2,100 random photographic images collected from 9 coral reef locations exposed to varying levels of anthropogenic influence across 2 ocean systems. Aesthetic values proved accurate predictors of the NCEAS scores (root mean square error < 5 forN≥ 3) and significantly correlated to microbial abundance at each site. This shows that mathematical approaches designed to assess the aesthetic appearance of photographic images can be used as an inexpensive monitoring tool for coral reef ecosystems. It further suggests that human perception of aesthetics is not purely subjective but influenced by inherent reactions towards measurable visual cues. By quantifying aesthetic features of coral reef systems this method provides a cost efficient monitoring tool that targets one of the most important socioeconomic values of coral reefs directly tied to revenue for its local population.

Working-Class Writing and the Use Value of the Literary

PMLA ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 127 (4) ◽  
pp. 932-938 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sonali Perera
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Aesthetics And Politics ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Greenwich Meridian ◽  
Country Culture ◽  
The Aesthetic

Formal preoccupations, which is to say specifically literary concerns, appear in small literatures only in a second phase, when an initial stock of literary resources has been accumulated and the first international artists find themselves in a position to challenge the aesthetic assumptions associated with realism and to exploit the revolutionary advances achieved at the Greenwich meridian.—Pascale Casanova, The World Republic of Letters“In our country culture has become so complex, this complexity is reflected in our literature. It takes a certain level of education to understand our novelists. The ordinary man cannot understand them …” … And she reeled off a list of authors, smiling smugly. It never occurred to her that these authors had ceased to be of any value whatsoever to their society—or was it really true that an extreme height of culture and the incomprehensible went hand in hand?—Bessie Head, A Question of Power (first ellipsis in orig.)ON WHAT BASIS ARE SELECT TRADITIONS OF LITERARY INTERNATIONALISM RECOGNIZED AS WORLD LITERATURE AND OTHERS DEEMED MERELY historical, relics of nostalgic Marxism or of resolved debates on aesthetics and politics? According to recent influential formulations, world literature is writing that in original or translated form circulates outside the author's country of origin. But what of traditions of literary internationalism, like those of working-class writing, that reverse and displace practical, utilitarian propositions to ask, instead, in more abstract terms, what is the use value of the literary? Bessie Head's A Question of Power poses a challenge to practical definitions. What of literary texts that have global currency but aren't of “any value whatsoever to their society”?

scholarly journals Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Meet Edward II

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boldizsár Fejérvári
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Human Behaviour ◽  
The Other ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Symbiotic Relationship ◽  
The Real ◽  
Edward Ii

It is a common fashion in literary criticism, or 'Lit Crit,' to treat reality, human behaviour, communication, and everything else as though they were 'texts to be read.' This paper proposes to go the other way: it interprets literature (or, more precisely, one literary text, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead) as a part of reality in which several other layers of the real combine, such as linguistics, science, or other literary texts, most notably Hamlet. While Edward II is not generally considered a direct source for Stoppard's play, this paper shows how, in the wider perspective of 'interreality,' Marlowe's tragedy might interact with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. At the same time it is proved that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, contrary to the critical conception of many, is not a parasitic work 'feeding off' Elizabethan playwrights, but a play that enters a symbiotic relationship with its host (as defined by Hillis Miller).

scholarly journals On the centenary of Zygmunt Janiszewski (1888-1920): ideals of mathematical practice and the constitution of continuum theory

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (18) ◽  
pp. 431-453
Author(s):  
Luis Carlos Arboleda ◽  
Andrés Chaves
Keyword(s):  
Mathematical Practice ◽  
Continuum Theory ◽  
Axiomatic System ◽  
Intellectual Character ◽  
The Social ◽  
Polish School ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Values ◽  
Philosophy Of Mathematical Practice ◽  
Scientific Life

This paper shows the importance of applying a certain approach to the history and philosophy of mathematical practice to the study of Zygmunt Janiszewski's contribution to the topological foundations of Continuum theory. In the first part, a biography of Janiszewski is presented. It emphasizes his role as one of the founders of the Polish School of Mathematics, and the social, political and military facets in which his intellectual character was revealed, as well as the values that guided his academic and scientific life. Kitcher's view of mathematical practice is then adopted to examine the philosophical conceptions and epistemological style of Janiszewski in relation to the construction of the formal axiomatic system of knowledge about the continua. Finally, it is shown the convenience of differentiating in Kitcher's approach, the methods, procedures, techniques and strategies of practice, and the aesthetic values of mathematics. Keywords: Zygmunt Janiszewski; Continuum theory; Philosophy of mathematical practice; Polish school of mathematics.

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