scholarly journals French Translations of the Qur’an Between Aesthetics and Scholarly Accuracy

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-118
Author(s):  
D. V. Mukhetdinov
Keyword(s):  
European Languages ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

This article examines the history of the tradition of translation of the Qur’an into French. This tradition is one of the oldest and most influential, as it has significantly supported the development of many other traditions of translations of the Qur’an, primarily, but by no means only, into many European languages (including Russian). In this paper we have attempted to examine the history of the tradition of translating the Qur’an into French in the context of the searching for a balance between the aesthetic characteristics of the interpreted text and its scholarly adequacy. Particular attention has also been paid to the translations of the Qur’an into French made by Francophone Muslims themselves: both in France and abroad.

scholarly journals “Poems in Prose” by I. S. Turgenev and Aesthetic Features of Traditional Chinese Poetry

2020 ◽  
pp. 17-24
Author(s):  
Лю. Чжицян ◽  
На. Сай
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Chinese Philosophy ◽  
Chinese Poetry ◽  
Prose Poems ◽  
Classical Chinese ◽  
Classical Poetry ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics ◽  
First Time

В статье рассматривается один из аспектов в истории восприятия русской литературы в Китае — соотношение стихотворений в прозе И. С. Тургенева (1818–1883) и китайской традиционной литературы. Изучаются причины особой популярности стихотворений в прозе И. С. Тургенева среди китайской читательской аудитории. Новизна исследования заключается в том, что в работе впервые представлен обзор о связях между «Стихотворениями в прозе» И. С. Тургенева и традиционной китайской поэзией. Материалом для исследования послужили как тексты традиционной китайской прозы Фу, так и стихотворения для пения Цы и древние малые саньвэни. Особое внимание уделяется анализу внутренних причин — связи традиционной китайской литературы с жанровыми и эстетическими особенностями тургеневских стихотворений в прозе. Выявляется «созвучие» ритма, сюжетов, тематики, композиционных и стилистических приемов при описании природы в стихотворениях в прозе И. С. Тургенева и китайской классической поэзии. Авторы останавливаются на том, как И. С. Тургенев с помощью описания природы выражает собственные чувства. Подчеркивается, что такой лирический прием соответствует как стетическим и художественным особенностям поэтов Древнего Китая, так и классической китайской философии. Проведенный анализ позволяет убедиться в том, что причиной популярности стихотворений в прозе И. С. Тургенева в Китае является соответствие эстетическим характеристикам классической китайской литературы. The article examines one of the aspects in the history of perception of Russian literature in China — the interrelationship of a prose poem by I. S. Turgenev (1818–1883) and Chinese traditional literature. The authors study the popularity of poems in prose by I. S. Turgenev among the Chinese readership. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that this work presents, for the first time, an overview of the links between “poems in prose” by I. S. Turgenev and traditional Chinese poetry. The material for the study was both texts of traditional Chinese prose Fu, as well as poems for singing Tsu and ancient small sanwen. Special attention is paid to the analysis of internal reasons — the connection of traditional Chinese literature with the genre and aesthetic features of Turgenev's poems in prose. The authors discuss the similarity and consonance of form, rhythm, plots, themes and similar techniques in describing nature in prose poems by I. S. Turgenev and Chinese classical poetry. The authors specifically focus on how I. S. Turgenev uses the description of nature to express his own feelings. It is emphasized that this lyrical technique not only corresponds to the aesthetic and artistic features of the poets of Ancient China, but also corresponds to classical Chinese philosophy. The analysis allows us to make sure that the reason for the popularity of poems in prose by I. S. Turgenev in China is the compliance with the aesthetic characteristics of classical Chinese literature.

Study of chorus art on students’ aesthetic cognition

2021 ◽  
pp. 002072092110032
Author(s):  
Zehui Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Art Students ◽  
Development History ◽  
Spiritual Civilization ◽  
Music Aesthetics ◽  
History Of ◽  
Aesthetic Cognition ◽  
Life Philosophy ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Aesthetic Characteristics

With the passage of time, people’s lifestyle and life philosophy have changed a lot; people began to pursue a higher quality of life. Chorus art is a spiritual civilization that shows a harmonious beauty. Through the melody of music works and chorus art, students are resonated, and music is used to guide students to be active and to enjoy beauty from beautiful melodies and strong rhythms. This paper studies the edification of students’ aesthetics from the art of chorus. Through the development history of chorus art in Western countries and China, this paper expounds the diversified development process of chorus, further analyze the aesthetic characteristics of chorus art, and guide people to feel the connotation of chorus art from the perspective of music aesthetics, and provide countermeasures for the development of chorus art.

Modern Greek V V dvandva compounds: A linguistic innovation in the history of the Indo-European languages

2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 48-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Ralli
Keyword(s):  
Language Contact ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Compound Formation ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Late Medieval Period ◽  
European Languages ◽  
History Of ◽  
Internal Change ◽  
Contact Situation ◽  
Asian Languages

This paper deals with [V V] dvandva compounds, which are frequently used in East and Southeast Asian languages but also in Greek and its dialects: Greek is in this respect uncommon among Indo-European languages. It examines the appearance of this type of compounding in Greek by tracing its development in the late Medieval period, and detects a high rate of productivity in most Modern Greek dialects. It argues that the emergence of the [V V] dvandva pattern is not due to areal pressure or to a language-contact situation, but it is induced by a language internal change. It associates this change with the rise of productivity of compounding in general, and the expansion of verbal compounds in particular. It also suggests that the change contributes to making the compound-formation patterns of the language more uniform and systematic. Claims and proposals are illustrated with data from Standard Modern Greek and its dialects. It is shown that dialectal evidence is crucial for the study of the rise and productivity of [V V] dvandva compounds, since changes are not usually portrayed in the standard language.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

What's the Message of Architecture?

2014 ◽  
pp. 126-136
Author(s):  
Аndrey G. Velikanov
Keyword(s):  
Separate Entity ◽  
Aesthetic Value ◽  
Current State ◽  
Entire Complex ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic

Considers the aspects of architecture as a language able to express the current state and to prophetically indicate the upcoming changes. The aesthetic value of a construction cannot be perceived just as a separate entity, but it can be cognized in the context and not only a visual one, in space. It is necessary to see the entire complex of the accompanying phenomena, all the flow of the unfolding metaphors and values. In the model in view the figure of the author-creator must be reconsidered as no longer conforming to today's reality. The development of the Stalinist Empire style, as well as its transformations, is considered as one of the specific phenomena in the history of well-known constructions

N. V. Kyuner (1877-1955): ‘Korea in the Second Half of the 18th Century.’ The Unpublished Typescript

2018 ◽  
pp. 24-37
Author(s):  
Nataliya A. Chesnokova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Far East ◽  
Development Stage ◽  
State University ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
European Languages ◽  
Foreign Policies ◽  
History Of ◽  
Crown Prince ◽  
Eastern Institute

Nikolai Vasilievich Kyuner (1877-1955) was a Russian Orientalist. Having graduated with merit from the St. Petersburg State University, he was sent to the Far East and spent there two years. Having returned, he was appointed head of the department of historical and geographical sciences at the Eastern Institute (Vladivostok) in 1904. Kyuner was one of the first Orientalists to teach courses in history, geography, and ethnography. His works number over 400. The article studies a typescript of his unpublished study ‘Korea in the second half of the 18th century’ now stored in the Archive of the Institute of Oriental Manuscripts of the Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg). Little known to Russian Koreanists, it nevertheless retains its scientific significance as one of the earliest attempts to study the history of the ‘golden age’ of Korea. The date of the typescript is not known, though analysis of the citations places its completion between 1931 and 1940. The article is to introduce the typescript into scientific use and to verify some facts and terms. N. V. Kuyner’s typescript consists of 8 sections: (1) ‘Introduction. Sources review’; (2) ‘General characteristics of the social development stage of Korea in the second half of the 18th century’; (3) ‘Great impoverishment of the country’; (4) ‘Peasantry’; (5) ‘Cities’; (6) ‘Popular revolts’; (7) ‘Military bureaucratic regime’; (8) ‘The Great Collection of Laws’ (a legal code). There are excerpts from foreign and national publications of the 19th - early 20th century, and there’s also some valuable information on Korean legal codes and encyclopedias of the 18th century, which have not yet been translated into any European languages. The typescript addresses socio-economic situation in Korea in the 18th century; struggles of the court cliques of the 16th-18th centuries and their role in inner and foreign policies of the country; social structure of the society and problems of the peasantry; role of trade in the development of the Middle Korean society; legal proceedings and legislation, etc. One of the first among Russian Koreanistics, N. V. Kyuner examined causes of sasaek (Korean ‘parties’) formation and the following events, linking together unstable situation in the country, national isolation, and execution of Crown Prince Sado (1735-1762).

Idleness and Freedom in Michel de Montaigne’s “Essays”

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 189-202
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual History ◽  
Ancient Rome ◽  
Spiritual Quest ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Sextus Empiricus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
The Relationship

The article advances a hypothesis about the composition of Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. Specialists in the intellectual history of the Renaissance have long considered the relationship among Montaigne’s thematically heterogeneous thoughts, which unfold unpredictably and often seen to contradict each other. The waywardness of those reflections over the years was a way for Montaigne to construct a self-portrait. Spontaneity of thought is the essence of the person depicted and an experimental literary technique that was unprecedented in its time and has still not been surpassed. Montaigne often writes about freedom of reflection and regards it as an extremely important topic. There have been many attempts to interpret the haphazardness of the Essays as the guiding principle in their composition. According to one such interpretation, the spontaneous digressions and readiness to take up very different philosophical notions is a form of of varietas and distinguo, which Montaigne understood in the context of Renaissance philosophy. Another interpretation argues that the Essays employ the rhetorical techniques of Renaissance legal commentary. A third opinion regards the Essays as an example of sprezzatura, a calculated negligence that calls attention to the aesthetic character of Montaigne’s writing. The author of the article argues for a different interpretation that is based on the concept of idleness to which Montaigne assigned great significance. He had a keen appreciation of the role of otium in the culture of ancient Rome and regarded leisure as an inner spiritual quest for self-knowledge. According to Montaigne, idleness permits self-directedness, and it is an ideal form in which to practice the freedom of thought that brings about consistency in writing, living and reality, in all of which Montaigne finds one general property - complete inconstancy. Socratic self-knowledge, a skepticism derived from Pyrrho of Elis and Sextus Empiricus, and a rejection of the conventions of traditional rhetoric that was similar to Seneca’s critique of it were all brought to bear on the concept of idleness and made Montaigne’s intellectual and literary experimentation in the Essays possible.

History of Dorsum Conservative Techniques in Rhinoplasty: The Evolution of a Revived Technique

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diego Arancibia Tagle ◽  
Jose Carlos Neves ◽  
Alwyn D'Souza
Keyword(s):  
Lateral Cartilage ◽  
Classic Problem ◽  
Alternative Option ◽  
History Of ◽  
Upper Lateral Cartilage ◽  
The Aesthetic

AbstractThe correction and management of the nasal hump has been a classic problem in rhinoplasty since the beginning of the aesthetic purpose of this surgery. For many years, the resective technique described by Joseph has been the battle horse to solve this problem but it has several drawbacks if not done properly. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, a new dorsal conservative technique was born and for several years was an alternative option to treat the same problem without damaging the keystone area while preserving the dorsal connection between the upper lateral cartilage and the septum. The aim of this article is to review the history and evolution of this technique, which has been reborn after several years, and how it has evolved since then.

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