scholarly journals LYRICAL AWKWARDNESS

Tanulmányok ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 67-82
Author(s):  
Dalma VÉRY
Keyword(s):  
Attentive Reader

The stylistic quirkiness of Ulysses is not only inconceivable but also unfathomable. The meanderings of speech from the opacity of narrative through chunks of silent thought to adopted discursive conventions do not leave the reader with the impression that they are facing a transparent narrative. On the contrary, the prose epic of Ulysses subverts expectations concerning “mood”, voice and discursive conventions, yielding threads of lyrically opaque speech. As these threads intertwine and cut across one another, a poetic fabric develops that diverts attention to itself and reveals how prose can foster lyrical foregrounding. The “Eumaeus” episode presents textual constructions that employ marked conventions of speech and eminent syntactic arrangements besides the indeterminacy of “mood” and voice to defamiliarize correlations of perception, thought and emotion. Accordingly, the work demonstrates that the thickly woven opacity of a multifarious fabric is indeed capable of leaving a lyrically subtle imprint on the attentive reader.

Orwell's ‘Barbarous’ Patriotism

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-389
Author(s):  
John Glassford
Keyword(s):  
George Orwell ◽  
The Unconscious ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Default Position

It is not always clear what the well-spring of patriotic feeling might be, and ‘patriots’ often have difficulty articulating the origins of their passion, though sources are seldom mysterious. In this article, it is suggested that George Orwell was one such example. With the Lacanian proposition that the unconscious is structured like a language as a default position, it is evident that Orwell's texts on nationalism, patriotism, and education clearly exhibit confusion. More specifically, it is when Orwell tries to disentangle ‘Englishness’ from ‘Scottishness’ that we see that despite his apparent sophistication as a journalist and propagandist, his account of Englishness is little more than patriarchal, nationalist chauvinism of the kind he claimed to despise. The attentive reader can see it in his texts, but he was blind to the contradiction.

scholarly journals Learning to Read Big Books: Dante, Spenser, Milton

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Christopher A. Hill
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Paradise Lost ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
Learning To Read ◽  
Daunting Task ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Long Poems ◽  
True Knowledge ◽  
Reading For Information

The interpretive challenges posed by dense and lengthy poems such as Dante’s Inferno, Spenser’s Faerie Queene, and Milton’s Paradise Lost can prove daunting for the average undergraduate reader whose experience of texts has been circumscribed by pedagogical mandates focused on reading for information. While information-retrieval based reading certainly has its place, the experience of reading these longer, more allegorical and symbolic poems can create in the attentive reader a far more valuable kind of learning, understood by Dante and his heirs, all working from Homeric and Virgilian models, as understanding. Each of these long poems pay very close attention to acts of interpretation, foregrounding the experiences of their characters to illustrate the proper way to move from sense, past speculation, to true understanding. Those who heed these lessons, and embrace the experience offered by the poet, find that the daunting task has been outlined as the necessary step to true knowledge rather than mere information.

scholarly journals EA Reader: Enhance Attentive Reader for Cloze-Style Question Answering via Multi-Space Context Fusion

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 6375-6382
Author(s):  
Chengzhen Fu ◽  
Yan Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Question Answering ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Unified Model ◽  
Inference Process ◽  
Context Vector ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Semantic Spaces ◽  
Real World Datasets

Query-document semantic interactions are essential for the success of many cloze-style question answering models. Recently, researchers have proposed several attention-based methods to predict the answer by focusing on appropriate subparts of the context document. In this paper, we design a novel module to produce the query-aware context vector, named Multi-Space based Context Fusion (MSCF), with the following considerations: (1) interactions are applied across multiple latent semantic spaces; (2) attention is measured at bit level, not at token level. Moreover, we extend MSCF to the multi-hop architecture. This unified model is called Enhanced Attentive Reader (EA Reader). During the iterative inference process, the reader is equipped with a novel memory update rule and maintains the understanding of documents through read, update and write operations. We conduct extensive experiments on four real-world datasets. Our results demonstrate that EA Reader outperforms state-of-the-art models.

The Conjectures of Guyet in the Text of Juvenal

Antichthon ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 30 ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
James Willis
Keyword(s):  
Attentive Reader

The name of Guyet as an emendator will be known to those who use Professor Clausen's edition of Juvenal, e.g. on 6.65 and 632-3; 7.138; 8.6-8. From Professor Courtney's commentary (p. 62) they will learn that the notes of Guyet were published by M. de Marolles in his edition of 1658. The attentive reader will note also that between the first and the second printing of Clausen's edition the credit for deleting 8.6-8 was transferred from Jachmann to Guyet—a circumstance which in itself suggests that the rediscovery of Guyet's conjectures is of recent date. The serious student of the text of Juvenal may therefore be grateful for the following facts.

F.M. DOSTOEVSKII IN THE ARTISTIC CONSCIENCE AND CRITICISM OF V.YA. BRYUSOV

2020 ◽  
pp. 40-52
Author(s):  
Nataliya A. Drovaleva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
19Th Century ◽  
Human Soul ◽  
Special Place ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
The Veil

The existing research is primarily dedicated to the reflections of motifs and images from Dostoevskii’s works in V.Ya. Bryusov’s art. This article focuses on Bryusov’s direct quotes about Dostoevskii and his art from the pages of his critical works, correspondence and diary entries, which lead the author to the conclusion that Bryusov was not only an attentive reader of Dostoevskii but also a researcher of his work. Unlike other notable authors of the late 19th and early 20th centuries (I.F. Annenskii, D.S. Merezhkovskii, A. Belyi etc.), Bryusov didn’t write a separate article on Dostoevskii, but he planned to write a monograph, a critical work, based on scientific foundations. However, he never finished it. This analysis leads the author to the conclusion that Dostoevskii held a special place in Bryusov’s artistic conscience. For him Dostoevskii’s literary craft was an art of mystery, capable of lifting the veil from the depths of a human soul. Additionally, the study of the features of Dostoevskii’s art became an important factor in the formation of Bryusov’s own poetics and in his approach to the traditions of poetics of the writers of 19th century.

ΙYΓΣ, ΡΟΜΒΟΣRhombus, Turbo

1934 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. S. F. Gow
Keyword(s):  
Attentive Reader

The student of Theocritus who wishes to know what is the ῥόμβος plied by Simaetha at l. 30 of the second Idyll will find it identified in the scholia with the ἲυγξ of the refrain; and of all the modern commentators who express an opinion, Legrand is alone in questioning the identification. And yet to the attentive reader it should seem more than questionable. It will be well to begin with an examination of the passage.The incantation of Simaetha, who might say, with Tibullus (1. 5. 16), uota nouem Triuiae nocte silente dedi, consists of nine terms, each of four verses, framed and articulated by the intercalary verse, ῖυγξ ἔλκε τύ τῆνον ἐμόν ποτὶ δῶμα τόν ἄνδρα of which there are therefore ten occurrences. The type to which the terms of the incantation in the main conform is given in the first two quatrains—(1) Strew barley-groats on the fire and say, ‘I strew the bones of Delphis.’ (2) I burn bay-leaves: so may Delphis burn. It consists, that is, of a magic act, accompanied by a prayer or by a statement equivalent to a prayer.

Seeing Double(s)

Mnemosyne ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Nicolò D’Alconzo
Keyword(s):  
The Novel ◽  
Attentive Reader

Abstract This article considers the Lucianic Erôtes a receptor of Greek novels and focusses on Chariton’s Callirhoe as hypotext. It argues that Chariton’s construction of Callirhoe as a double of Aphrodite, and the plot that this predicament generates, are central to the presentation of the statue of Aphrodite in the Erôtes. This is revealed by consistent verbal echoes and by the re-enactment of memorable scenes in the novel. The Erôtes emerges as an important document for the early reception of Greek novels, and its author as an attentive reader of them.

Epilogue

2019 ◽  
pp. 357-360
Author(s):  
György Buzsáki
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Le Corbusier ◽  
Scientific Journals ◽  
Primary Reason ◽  
Neuroscience Research ◽  
Neuronal Mechanisms ◽  
Attentive Reader ◽  
Inside Out ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

The outside is always an inside. —LE CORBUSIER1 It’s what’s inside that counts. —CUBESMART (SUBWAY AD) All enquiry and all learning is but recollection. —SOCRATES IN PLATO’S MENO 1. Le Corbusier (1923). I did not aim to write a perfect book—just a story good enough that the reader can understand my views and challenge them. My goal was not so much to convince but to expose the problems and highlight my offered solutions. Perfection and precise solutions will have to wait for numerous experiments to be performed and reported in detail in scientific journals. I analyzed how an undefined and unagreed-upon terminology, which we inherited from our pre-neuroscience ancestors and never questioned, has become a roadblock to progress. The neuronal mechanisms of invented terms with ill-defined content are hard to discover. Such conceptual confusion is perhaps the primary reason why “my scientist” could not explain to me my pig friend’s cognitive abilities (see the Preface). This message is especially important today, when newly invented terms are again popping up like mushrooms after a rain. I do not insist that my inside-out framework is right or the only way to go, but I hope I presented enough evidence in this book to convince the attentive reader that the outside-in strategy has reached its limits in neuroscience research....

Artemis of Troy

1960 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-116
Author(s):  
H. Mattingly
Keyword(s):  
Attentive Reader

Any attentive reader of the Iliad and the Odyssey will have been struck by some very odd features of Homer's religion—the sudden shift from reverence to frivolity, for example. What I want to glance at in this article is something rather different. The gods and goddesses worshipped by the Trojans are called by Greek names. Some deities are definitely partisan—Hera and Poseidon, for example, for the Greeks; Apollo, Artemis, Aphrodite, and Ares for the Trojans—while Zeus is strictly impartial. But, if the Trojans were, as we are always told, of a race distinct from the Greeks, Trojan gods will have been translated out of a native idiom into a Greek. Whenever you translate, mistakes in rendering are possible; I want to suggest one particular mistranslation here.

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