scholarly journals RHYTHMIC SEMANTIC STRUCTURES “PARTICULARS AND UNIVERSALS” IN THE LYRICS OF ART SONGS AND ALGORYTHMS OF THEIR DETECTION

Author(s):  
A.V. Zipunov ◽  
S.V. Valganov

In order to study holistic cultural phenomena, including art songs, a tool reminiscent of LR(k)-parser of context-free grammars has been formalized. With the help of this algorithm a two-pass analysis of two works by different authors, united by the common theme of overcoming, was carried out. Two common structures were revealed in the texts: the semantic alternation of the "particulars and universals" oppositions (PU-rhythm) and the arrhythmic motif of overcoming (O-structure).

This chapter reviews the books Fútbol, Jews and the Making of Argentina (2014), by Raanan Rein, translated by Marsha Grenzeback, and Muscling in on New Worlds: Jews, Sport, and the Making of the Americas (2014), edited by Raanan Rein and David M.K. Sheinin. Rein’s book deals with the “making” of Argentina through football (soccer), while Muscling in on New Worlds focuses on the “making” of the Americas (mainly the one America, called the United States) through sports. Muscling in on New Worlds is a collection of essays that seeks to advance the common theme of sport as “an avenue by which Jews threaded the needle of asserting a Jewish identity.” Topics include Jews as boxers, Jews and football, Jews and yoga, Orthodox Jewish athletes, and American Jews and baseball. There are also essays about the cinematic and literary representations of Jews in sports.


2016 ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Wolfgang J. Paul ◽  
Christoph Baumann ◽  
Petro Lutsyk ◽  
Sabine Schmaltz

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