THE BEAUTIFUL WOMAN WITHOUT MERCY

2021 ◽  
pp. 106-124
Keyword(s):  
Beautiful Woman

Modeling Perfection

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Wasdin
Keyword(s):  
Love Poetry ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
Husband And Wife

This chapter shows how three heroic paradigms (Helen, Achilles, and the couple Peleus and Thetis) function in wedding and love poetry. The flexibility of their myths allows for both positive and negative presentations in different contexts. Helen, as the most beautiful woman, serves as a model for both brides and mistresses. Her ability to arouse desire and her willingness to follow her longings make her a complicated ideal. Achilles is equally complex as an archetypal young warrior, albeit one without a stable union who often brings death to his paramours. Peleus and Thetis, the parents of Achilles, are famed for their glorious wedding, yet do not go on to become devoted husband and wife. Weddings glamorize fleeting moments of excellence, but the discourse of love poetry shows how fragile these models can be.

Capturing a Beautiful Woman at Masada

2006 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Zias ◽  
Azriel Gorski
Keyword(s):  
Beautiful Woman

scholarly journals City Literature in Abdu al-Aziz al-Makkali’s Poetry

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Mujahid Ahmed Mohammed Alwaqaa
Keyword(s):  
Personal Experience ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
The World ◽  
The City ◽  
Poetic Work ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Historical Theory ◽  
City Literature

World literature teems with the portrayal of famous cities throughout the world. This kind of literature is unanimously known as city literature. It does not merely describe and portray places, objects, and landscapes for their own sake, it, however, gives readers a revisionist perspective to look afresh and introspectively into self, history, and culture. This paper aims to shed light on a city that witnessed great changes throughout its history. It is called Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, and it is one of such world-famous and ancient cities about which interesting and rich literature has been written. Sana’a has been immortalized in the prose and poetry of local and international prolific and intelligent writers such as Abdu al-Aziz al-Makkali, a famous contemporary Yemeni poet. Sana’a is magnificently portrayed in different exotic images in al-Makkali’s collection of poetry entitled Book of Sana’a. The poet engages in a kind of dialogue with the city in a personal experience and unique particularity, but in the process, this particularity becomes cosmopolitan. Each poem is located in a particular space which gives the poet and reader alike a sense of the place, history, and culture, and an intense feeling of wider identification and empathy. Sana’a is anthropomorphically portrayed as a beautiful woman, sad woman, beloved lady, spirit, and city of heaven. It is fantastically depicted as a unique piece of artifact molded and designed by the hands of God. So, this piece of research attempts to analyze social and political imports and the different images of the city employed by al-Makkali in his poetic work: Book of Sana’a. As a theoretical framework, the paper adopts both historical theory of criticism as well as the formalist theory, so the analysis is focused on both context and text of the selected poems.

scholarly journals WAWACAN SITI PERMANA KARYA M.K. MANGOENDIKARIA (Kajian Struktural dan Antropologi Sastra)

LOKABASA ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 26
Author(s):  
EGI PRAJA SEPTIAN
Keyword(s):  
Belief System ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Formal Structure ◽  
Technological Systems ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Cultural Wealth ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Anthropological Literature ◽  
Descriptive Method

Penelitian ini berjudul Wawacan Siti Permana Karya M.K. Mangoendikaria (Kajian Struktural dan Antropologi Sastra). Penelitian ini bertujuan mendeskripsikan: 1) struktur formal Wawacan Siti Permana, 2) struktur naratif Wawacan Siti Permana, 3) unsur-unsur antropologi sastra dalam Wawacan Siti Permana. Sumber data dari penelitian ini adalah Wawacan Siti Permana yang ditulis oleh M.K. Mangoendikaria. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode deskriptif. Teknik penelitian yang digunakan adalah teknik studi pustaka. Wawacan Siti Permana menceritakan sosok wanita yang cantik, bernama Nyi Siti Permana, selaku anak dari lurah désa Cigéréléng, banyak pria yang terpikat olehnya. Pupuh yang ditemukan terdapat 10 pupuh dengan 526 paragraf, yaitu pupuh dangdanggula, pupuh asmarandana, pupuh kinanti, pupuh pangkur, pupuh magatru, pupuh sinom, pupuh mijil, pupuh maskumambang, pupuh  lambang, dan pupuh pucung. Hasil dari penelitian ini adalah: 1) struktur formal Wawacan Siti Permana terdiri dari guru lagu dan guru wilangan pupuh, watak/karakter pupuh, serta sepuluh sasmita pupuh, 2) struktur naratif Wawacan Siti Permana meliputi: a) alur cerita campuran dan ada 18 episode, b) terdapat lima motif cerita, c) tokoh cerita terdiri dari 12 tokoh, d) latar cerita meliputi latar tempat, latar waktu, dan latar suasana, e) tema cerita dalam Wawacan Siti Permana yaitu kasih sayang, f) terdapat kolofon yaitu pada jaman perang Itali dan Absinia, dan g) tidak ditemukan adanya manggalasastra, 3) unsur antropologi sastra Wawacan Siti Permana meliputi: a) sistem kepercayaan (religi) meliputi tiga aspek, b) organisasi sosial/organisasi kemasyarakatan meliputi dua aspek, c) ilmu pengetahuan terdiri dari delapan aspek, d) bahasa meliputi tiga bahasa, gaya bahasa, dan babasan paribasa Sunda, e) terdapat empat kesenian, f) sistem mata pencaharian terdapat 16 mata pencaharian, g) sistem tekhnologi meliputi enam aspek. Wawacan Siti Permanamempunyai banyak nilai-nilai didalamnya dan sangat penting untuk kekayaan kebudayaan hususnya untuk masyarakat Sunda. AbstractThis research is entitled Wawacan Siti Permana of M.K. Mangoendikaria (A Structural and Anthropological Literature Study). This study aimed to describe (1) the formal structure; (2) the narrative structure; and (3) the elements of the anthropological literature in Wawacan Siti Permana. The data source of this research is the text of Wawacan Siti Permana of M.K. Mangoendikaria. The research employed descriptive method. This study used the technique of literature study. Wawacan Siti Permana tells a story of a beautiful woman, named Nyi Siti Permana. She is the daughter of the Head of Cigereleng Village. Many men are lured by Siti Permana. In the text, there are 10 pupuhs with 526 paragraphs. They are Pupuh dangdanggula, Pupuh Asmarandana, Pupuh kinanti, Pupuh Pangkur, Pupuh Magatru, Pupuh Sinom Pupuh Mijil, Pupuh Maskumambang, Pupuh Lambang, and Pupuh Pucung. There are some of the results of this research. (1) The formal structure of Wawacan Siti Permana consists of guru lagu and guru wilangan of the pupuhs, characters of the pupuhs, and ten sasmitas of the pupuhs. (2) the narrative structure of Wawacan Siti Permana includes (a) a mixture storyline with 18 episodes; (B) five motifs of story; (C) 12 characters of the stories; (D) the background of place, time setting, and background of ambience; (E) the theme of compassion; (F) The colophon of days of the war between Italy and Ethiopia; and (g) no manggalasastra. (3) The elements of anthropological literature are (a) the three aspects of the belief system (religion); (b) two aspects of social organization; (C) the eight aspects of science; (D) three languages, style, and Sundanese babasan-paribasa; (E) four arts; (F) 16 livelihood; (G) six aspects of technological systems. Wawacan Siti Permana contains many important values and cultural wealth of the Sundanese people. 

Beauty and Charisma: A Comment on A. Schweitzer's ‘Theory of Political Charisma’

1974 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 182-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Charismatic Leader ◽  
Beautiful Woman

A charismatic leader is like a beautiful woman. Taken as a whole and looked on from afar we can all agree as to the extraordinary nature of the creature. Yet once we begin a detailed analysis of each part we find we have difficulty pointing to exactly those elements that produce the effect. Clinical descriptions may incline us to lust or disgust, but they may fail to inform us as to the ephemeral nature of the phenomenon. For that we often engage, as here, in metaphor.

Zariadres And Zarer

1955 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 463-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maey Boyce
Keyword(s):  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
The People

IT is now almost a century since Rapp cited, 1 among Greek texts relating to Persian customs and beliefs, the charming tale of Zariadres and Odatis, preserved for us by Athenaeus on the authority of Chares of Mytilene.2 The story is in brief as follows: Hystaspes and his younger brother Zariadres were said by the people of their land to be born of Aphrodite and Adonis. Hystaspes ruled Media and the lands below it, Zariadres the region above the Caspian Gates up to the Tanais. Beyond the Tanals lived the Marathi, ruled by Omartes, whose daughter Odatis was the most beautiful woman in Asia.3 Odatis dreamt of Zariadres, and loved him; and he too loved Odatis through dreams. He sought her vainly in marriage, for her father did not wish to give her to a stranger. Soon after, Omartes held a marriage-feast attended by his own kinsmen and nobles, and bade Odatis give a cup of wine to him whom she wished to marry. Zariadres, forewarned by Odatis, came in full haste across the Tanals, accompanied only by his charioteer, and entered the hall in Scythian dress as, weeping, Odatis slowly filled the cup. She recognized him with joy, and he carried her off. This tale, Chares states, was greatly esteemed by the barbarians of Asia, who painted scenes from it on the walls of temples, palaces, and even private houses, the nobles often giving the name of Odatis to their own daughters.

Visualizing onomasiological change: Diachronic variation in metonymic patterns for woman in Chinese

2015 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 289-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Weiwei Zhang ◽  
Dirk Geeraerts ◽  
Dirk Speelman
Keyword(s):  
Social Changes ◽  
Distance Calculation ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
Innovative Method ◽  
Scaling Solution ◽  
History Of ◽  
Corpus Data ◽  
Historical Variation ◽  
Diachronic Changes

AbstractThis paper introduces an innovative method to aid the study of conceptual onomasiological research, with a specific emphasis on diachronic variation in the metonymic patterns with which a target concept is expressed. We illustrate how the method is applied to explore and visualize such diachronic changes by means of a case study on the metonymic patterns for woman in the history of Chinese. Visualization is done with the help of a Multidimensional Scaling solution based on the profile-based distance calculation (Geeraerts et al. 1999; Speelman et al. 2003) and by drawing diachronic trajectories in a set of MDS maps, corresponding to different metonymic targets. This method proves to be effective and feasible in detecting changes in the distribution of metonymic patterns in authentic historical corpus data. On the basis of this method, we can show that different targets exhibit different degrees of diachronic variation in their metonymic patterns. We find diachronically more stable targets (e.g. imperial woman), targets with a dominant trend in diachronic variation (e.g. a woman), and targets with highly fluctuating historical variation (e.g. beautiful woman). Importantly, we can identify the cultural and social changes that may lie behind some of these changes. Examining the results uncovered by the method offers us a better understanding of the dynamicity of metonymic conceptualizations.

VENUS BY BOTTICELLI AND HER PITUITARY ADENOMA

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (10) ◽  
pp. 1067-1073
Author(s):  
Paolo Pozzilli ◽  
Luca Vollero ◽  
Anna Maria Colao
Keyword(s):  
Growth Hormone ◽  
Pituitary Adenoma ◽  
Pituitary Apoplexy ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Sufficient Evidence ◽  
Methods Comparison ◽  
Pituitary Growth Hormone ◽  
Beautiful Woman ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject

Objective: Simonetta Vespucci, considered the most beautiful woman of the Renaissance, is the inspiration and face of one of the most famous paintings of all times, “The Birth of Venus,” by Botticelli. She died in 1476 at the age of 23 years. We postulate she suffered from a pituitary-secreting tumor progressing to pituitary apoplexy. The goals of this study were 3-fold: (i) verify that the subject depicted by Botticelli in different paintings represents the same woman; (ii) identify the facial traits affected by the progression of a growth hormone– and prolactin-secreting tumor; and (iii) confirm that the observed changes of the face traits observed in the portraits of Simonetta Vespucci are compatible with the facial traits changes identified earlier. Methods: Comparison among face traits was based on the analysis of the face regions measured by means of fiducial points and their distances, and after pose compensation based on three-dimensional head modelling. Results: In favor of the hypothesis that Simonetta suffered from a pituitary growth hormone– and prolactin-secreting tumor stands changes of her lineaments, a feature which becomes evident over the years and particularly manifest in the Allegorical Lady, where galactorrhea is depicted. Conclusion: We conclude that sufficient evidence is presented to suggest that Simonetta Vespucci, the Venus depicted by Botticelli, suffered from pituitary adenoma secreting prolactin and growth hormon with parasellar expansion. The current interpretation of the Venus strabism should be revisited according to this finding. Abbreviation: GH = growth hormone

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