A New Form of Expression

2022 ◽  
pp. 33-50
Keyword(s):  
New Form ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Prasch

Paul Schrader says Mishima, like Taxi Driver’s hero, “is an example of a certain pathology of suicidal glory that transcends education and culture.” But for Schrader his task is “exploration” of such pathology, while critics tend to take it as endorsement. This chapter shows that Schrader’s tactics in Mishima in fact invite misreading, through their aesthetic distance. Although the present tense of the film is carried out in what might be called a near-documentary neutral naturalism, most of the film works in other ways: the biographical flashbacks in more expressionistic black and white; the three segments of adapted novels both in lush color, and presented as deliberately, anti-naturalistic staged, in a kabuki-inflected style. The result of such aestheticizing tactics, in combination with the direction of Mishima’s own life—toward the “final action” as new “form of expression,” toward life as art—in its very Wildean tenor, strikes an “art for art’s sake” tone, suspending moral judgment. This aestheticism tends to bury the real (as opposed to Mishima’s intoned voiceover) final outcome: that this is a failed coup and a deluded act.


Author(s):  
Xavier Borja Bucar ◽  
Raimon Paz de Casacuberta

Es mediante el lenguaje verbal, esto es, por medio de la palabra, que nos es dado, cuanto menos, aspirar a un cierto grado de objetividad. En el contexto de una lengua, cada palabra designa unívocamente algo, contiene una referencialidad que todos compartimos, por más que cada uno de nosotros luego ampliemos o tergiversemos esa referencialidad. La música, expresión de naturaleza catártica, en la medida en que no posee esa referencialidad unívoca por todos compartida, constituye una forma de expresión carente de significado objetivo. Ello ha quedado patente en la ópera, una forma en que la simultaneidad de música y palabra ha supuesto tradicionalmente la reducción de la segunda a mera contingencia, al mismo tiempo que ha puesto en primer plano la vacuidad de significado de la primera. Con respecto a esto, el objetivo de este breve trabajo es dar cuenta, en la obra de Richard Wagner, del hallazgo de un modo convertir la música en expresión trascendental. Veremos, pues, cómo en su empeño el compositor alemán, a través de una reformulación habilitadora del lenguaje operístico, logra una forma nueva –el drama musical– que corrobora una lección ya imperecedera: la música solo puede convertirse en expresión trascendental, es decir, no accesoria, mediante un proceso de literaturización. It is through verbal language, through the word, that it is given to us, at least, to aspire to a certain degree of objectivity. In the context of a language, each word uniquely designates something, it contains a referentiality that we all share, even though each of us then expands or misrepresents that referentiality. Music, an expression of cathartic nature, insofar as it does not have that unique referentiality shared by all, constitutes a form of expression devoid of objective meaning. This has been evident in the opera, a form in which the simultaneity of music and word has traditionally meant the reduction of the second one to mere contingency, at the same time that it has brought to the forefront the emptiness of meaning of the first one. With regard to this, the objective of this brief work is to give an account, in Richard Wagner's work, of the discovery of a way to convert music into a transcendental expression. We will see how in his endeavor the German composer, through an enabling reformulation of operatic language, achieves a new form - musical drama - that corroborates an already imperishable lesson: music can only become a transcendental expression, that is, not accessory, through a process of literaturization.


Author(s):  
W. H. Zucker ◽  
R. G. Mason

Platelet adhesion initiates platelet aggregation and is an important component of the hemostatic process. Since the development of a new form of collagen as a topical hemostatic agent is of both basic and clinical interest, an ultrastructural and hematologic study of the interaction of platelets with the microcrystalline collagen preparation was undertaken.In this study, whole blood anticoagulated with EDTA was used in order to inhibit aggregation and permit study of platelet adhesion to collagen as an isolated event. The microcrystalline collagen was prepared from bovine dermal corium; milling was with sharp blades. The preparation consists of partial hydrochloric acid amine collagen salts and retains much of the fibrillar morphology of native collagen.


Author(s):  
M.K. Lamvik ◽  
L.L. Klatt

Tropomyosin paracrystals have been used extensively as test specimens and magnification standards due to their clear periodic banding patterns. The paracrystal type discovered by Ohtsuki1 has been of particular interest as a test of unstained specimens because of alternating bands that differ by 50% in mass thickness. While producing specimens of this type, we came across a new paracrystal form. Since this new form displays aligned tropomyosin molecules without the overlaps that are characteristic of the Ohtsuki-type paracrystal, it presents a staining pattern that corresponds to the amino acid sequence of the molecule.


2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Wilt ◽  
William Revelle

Nature ◽  
2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Ball
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2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (16) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
ELIZABETH MECHCATIE
Keyword(s):  

1883 ◽  
Vol 15 (380supp) ◽  
pp. 6058-6058
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