Materializing the Lyric Tradition:

2021 ◽  
pp. 28-55
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Tradition

scholarly journals An Investigation about Entailment and Narrative by AI Techniques (Generative Models)

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. p61
Author(s):  
Paolo Marocco ◽  
Roberto Gigliucci
Keyword(s):  
Generative Models ◽  
Language Models ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Logical Inference ◽  
Narrative Story ◽  
Task Requirements ◽  
Lyric Tradition

Many storytelling generation problems concern the difficulty to model the sequence of sentences. Language models are generally able to assign high scores to well-formed text, especially in the cases of short texts, failing when they try to simulate human textual inference. Although in some cases output text automatically generated sounds as bland, incoherent, repetitive and unrelated to the context, in other cases the process reveals capability to surprise the reader, avoiding to be boring/predictable, even if the generated text satisfies entailment task requirements. The lyric tradition often does not proceed towards a real logical inference, but takes into account alternatives like the unexpectedness, useful for predicting when a narrative story will be perceived as interesting. To achieve a best comprehension of narrative variety, we propose a novel measure based on two components: inference and unexpectedness, whose different weights can modify the opportunity for readers to have different experiences about the functionality of a generated story. We propose a supervised validation treatment, in order to compare the authorial original text, learned by the model, with the generated one.

The Italian Lyric Tradition: Essays in Honour of F. J. Jones

1996 ◽  
Vol 91 (2) ◽  
pp. 494
Author(s):  
Charles Burdett ◽  
Gino Bedani ◽  
Remo Catani ◽  
Monica Slowikowska
Keyword(s):  
Lyric Tradition

The Devil’s Gonna Get You

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gussow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Intimate Relationships ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Major Theme ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Bessie Smith ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
The Devil

This chapter explores a major theme within the blues lyric tradition: the devil as a figure who haunts intimate relationships between African American men and women. In some cases, men imagine themselves as footloose, mistreating devils; in other cases, they complain about romantic rivals who act in that way; in still other cases, they rage as their women, in thrall to the devil, grow cold to the touch or transfer their feelings to some other man. Artists covered include Lonnie Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Skip James, and Sonny Boy Williamson, along with Bessie Smith, Koko Taylor, and other black women who call on the devil to punish their no-good man—or, alternately, reject him as a mistreating devil rather than the angel he appeared at first to be.

I’m Going to Marry the Devil’s Daughter

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Gussow
Keyword(s):  
Jim Crow ◽  
Black Man ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
Jim Crow South ◽  
The Devil ◽  
The Way

This chapter explores the way in which the blues lyric tradition uses the devil as a figure for the southern white man and hell as a figure for the miseries of the Jim Crow South. The white slave master and slave patroller show up, in coded form, in the antebellum spirituals; this tradition was reconfigured after Emancipation to reflect the new realities of the sharecropper's and bluesman's world, one presided over by the white bossman, sheriff, and prison farm warden. Bluesmen acted the devil, one might say, in order to evade and supplant the (white) devil and live more freely in the Jim Crow South over which he presided. Big Bill Broonzy, Peetie Wheatstraw, Lightnin' Hopkins, Champion Jack Dupree, and others recorded songs in which they signified on this mean white devil; Wheatstraw and Broonzy imaged themselves as his son-in-law: the black man making love to the white devil's daughter.

Nicolò de’ Rossi

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabio Sangiovanni
Keyword(s):  
Civil Law ◽  
Northern Italy ◽  
Veneto Region ◽  
13Th Century ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Cino Da Pistoia ◽  
Lyric Tradition

Nicolò de’ Rossi (c. 1295–c. post-1348) was born in Treviso, Italy, toward the end of the 13th century and died in Venice after 1348. Beyond a preeminent legal activity that allowed him to take part as a Guelph to the unstable political events of those years, he was one of the most important literary personalities of his age in northern Italy. His cultural renown within the Trevisan area is confirmed by the fact that after the completion of his law studies in Bologna in 1318, he was preferred over Cino da Pistoia as professor of civil law at the academic Studium of Treviso, and he was often chosen as one of the members of diplomatic missions in several troublesome circumstances (in particular during the war against Cangrande della Scala). However, his name is primarily remembered because of his fervent literary activity: his poetic production includes more than 400 poems (sonnets and four canzoni, one associated to a Latin commentary) written between 1317 and 1329, collected, almost as a lyric canzoniere, in the manuscript Colombino 7.1.32 preserved at the Biblioteca Capitular in Seville. These poems mainly deal with love subjects (he experienced all the possibilities offered by the coeval tradition, from Guittone’s style to Stilnovo styles), as well as with political, moral, realistic, and religious themes. Furthermore, thanks to the testimony of this manuscript, we are able to recognize him as the author of the first vernacular examples of figurative poetry: by renewing the model of the Latin carmina figurata, he integrated the phonic element into the graphic one through the elaboration of complex visual architectures for four poems. His importance in the Veneto region is also due to his activity as a veritable editor of the Italian lyric tradition, as witnessed by another manuscript (Barberiniano lat. 3953 of the Vatican Library), collecting a wide series of Tuscan texts (by Dante, Cavalcanti, Cino da Pistoia, Cecco Angiolieri, etc.) that constitute a remarkable anthology based on particular criteria of selection and inner order.

scholarly journals Song and the Soundscape of Old French Romance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Dillon
Keyword(s):  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Old French ◽  
Sound Studies ◽  
Chretien De Troyes ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
Chrétien De Troyes ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
Old French Romance

This chapter examines the presence of song and sound in romance, with a particular focus on the traditions of Old French romance from its incarnation in the 1170s, in the works of Chrétien de Troyes, to the earliest examples of romances interpolated with song (romans à chansons) which date from the first decades of the thirteenth century. Romance’s emergence coincided with a period of extraordinary creativity in the realm of vernacular song, most notably with the emergence of a northern lyric tradition of the trouvères, with the continued cultivation of their Occitan inspiration in the lyrics of the troubadours, and with the earliest efforts at codification of both, in songbooks or chansonniers, the earliest examples of which date from the 1230s. Drawing on approaches from musicology, literary studies, and sound studies, my chapter explores how sound manifests in this tradition, and proposes ways to listen to romance. Listening to romance in turn permits new ways to reframe song culture, particularly in the period prior to its notated codification, and the chapter has implications, too, for what musicology may learn from the sonic aspect of romance.

scholarly journals Andanzas españolas de la poesía costarricense

LETRAS ◽  
2006 ◽  
pp. 75-91
Author(s):  
Carlos Francisco Monge
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Analytical Description ◽  
Costa Rican ◽  
Century Poetry ◽  
Lyric Tradition ◽  
Siglo Xx

Se describe analíticamente un recorrido histórico de los vínculos literarios, culturales y editoriales entre la producción poética costarricense del siglo xx, y la tradición lírica castellana. Sitúa las letras costarricenses en su contexto hispanoamericano, y señala algunos hitos que podrían explicar etapas y aspectos significativos de su desarrollo literario. An analytical description is provided of the literary, cultural and publishing ties existing between Costa Rican twentieth-century poetry and the Spanish lyric tradition. It situates Costa Rican letters in their Latin American context and suggests certain milestones which could explain significant stages and aspects of its literary development.

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