Decoding the Allegory of the ‘Theosophical and Western Eclogue’

2018 ◽  
pp. 184-201
Author(s):  
Paul Cheshire
Keyword(s):  
Young Girl ◽  
Eleusinian Mysteries ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead

This chapter addresses what Gilbert intended to represent through the action of his poem. An evidently symbolic young girl, Elmira, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck. Her mother is drowned. Gilbert makes several references to the Eleusinian Mysteries which concern the rebirth of Ceres’ daughter Proserpina. The common mother-daughter theme suggests a parallel interplay between the living and the dead. The ancient mystery cults, and their parallels with the secret rituals associated with Masonic initiation, were of contemporary interest, as can be shown by Thomas Taylor’s Dissertation on the Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, which was based on an exegesis of Aeneas’ descent into the underworld (Aeneid, Book VI). This method of exegesis – which had been used by Neoplatonists to unlock hidden meanings in Homer – provides a possible key to Gilbert’s allegory.

Commentary: Necromance

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-839
Author(s):  
Irvin J Hunt
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Romantic Novel ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Cooperative Economy ◽  
The Revolution

Abstract This article reconsiders the recent turn in political theory to love as a countercapital affect, helping us endure when hope has lost its salience. The article offers the concept of “necromance” to attend to the ways the popular configuration of love as life-giving often overlooks how in the history of slavery and liberal empire love operates as life-taking. Distinct from necromancy, necromance is not a process of reviving the dead but of bringing subjects in ever closer proximity to the dead. Grounded in a reading of W. E. B. Du Bois’s romantic novel The Quest of the Silver Fleece (1911), particularly its vision of a cooperative economy and its response to the evolving meaning of love in American culture at the end of the nineteenth century, necromance is both a structure of feeling and a form of writing. As a resource for activism indebted to the creative powers of melancholic attachments, necromance contests the common conception that in order for grievances to become social movements or collective insurgencies they must be framed to create feelings of outrage, not of grief. By working inside existing conditions of irrevocable loss, necromantic love registers the feeling that the revolution is already here.

Relation between respiratory valve dead space and tidal volume

1980 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 528-532 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. W. Bradley ◽  
M. Younes
Keyword(s):  
Tidal Volume ◽  
Dead Space ◽  
Water Displacement ◽  
Respiratory Valve ◽  
Laboratory Procedures ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Marked Tendency

We measured the "effective" dead space of five commonly used respiratory valves: Hans Rudolph valve, two-way J valve, triple-J valve, and modified Otis-McKerrow valves without and with vane. The dead space was measured using a technique that mimicked the operation of valves during ordinary laboratory procedures. The valves were ventilated with tidal volumes ranging from 0.35-3.00 liters and at different frequencies. With all valves, there was a marked tendency for "effective" dead space to be tidal volume dependent. The measured dead space approached the water-displacement volume of the common chamber of the valve only at tidal volumes in excess of 2.0 liters. The relation between valve dead space and tidal volume was independent of frequency.

Defaming the Dead

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Herzog
Keyword(s):  
Common Law ◽  
Tort Law ◽  
Dead Person ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Way

If you defame the dead, even someone who recently died, tort law does not think that’s an injury: not to the grieving survivors and not to the dead person. This book argues that defamation is an injury to the recently dead. It explores history, including the shaping of the common law, and offers an account of posthumous harm and wrong. Along the way, it offers a sustained exploration of how we and the law think about corpse desecration.

Female Intersubjectivity: Violence, Women, and Elegy in Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 237-261
Author(s):  
Jung Ja Choi
Keyword(s):  
Alzheimer’S Disease ◽  
Alzheimer's Disease ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Korean Society ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Impending Death ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Sex Crime

Abstract This article explores the configuration of female intersubjectivity demonstrated in the film Poetry (Si, 2010) by Lee Chang-dong (Yi Ch’angdong), as well as the power of poetry to conjure the dead and provide space and voice for marginalized and silenced women. The focus of the film is Mija, a woman in her mid-sixties who works as a caregiver to a disabled man while raising a grandson on her own. Just as Mija discovers that her grandson has been implicated in a sex crime that led to a girl’s death, she learns that she herself is in the first stage of Alzheimer’s disease. It is through poetry that Mija mourns her own impending death and also that of the young girl, who is otherwise consigned to oblivion under the phallocentric order of South Korean society. Lee Chang-dong’s film, this article argues, shows that despite the impossibility of poetry in the face of tragedy, lyric imagination offers women the power to escape the patriarchal imposition of silence and preserve a story of their own.

LVIII. Spenser's Seven Bead-Men and the Corporal Works of Mercy

PMLA ◽  
1939 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 974-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Mounts
Keyword(s):  
The Common ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Way

After the Redcross Knight has been rescued from Orgoglio by Prince Arthur and from Despeyre by the wise and watchful Una, he is brought by the latter to the House of Holinesse, “Where he is taught repentaunce, and The way to heauenly blesse.” There Mercy, “a matrone graue and hore,” leads him to one of the places of his purification, a “holy Hospitall” in which are employed seven bead-men who spend their days in doing godly works. The first of them, as eldest and best, has charge and government of all the house, giving entertainment and lodging to all who come and go. The second has for his office the giving of food to the hungry and drink to the thirsty. A third has in custody the common wardrobe, from which he dispenses “clothes meet to keepe keene could away,/ And naked nature seemely to aray.” A fourth is appointed for the relieving of prisoners and the redeeming of captives. A fifth cares for the sick and comforts those lying at the point of death. Still a sixth bead-man superintends the burial of the dead, lest the wondrous workmanship of God's own mould might be defouled.

Ciceronian Oratory

1945 ◽  
Vol 14 (41-42) ◽  
pp. 72-81
Author(s):  
M. L. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Roman Republic ◽  
Civil Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
General Question ◽  
Roman Oratory ◽  
The Common ◽  
Special Quality ◽  
The Dead ◽  
Universal Application

In assessing the characteristics of Cicero's oratory we are in the unfortunate position of being unable to compare him with his contemporaries and predecessors. The speeches of Hortensius and of the other famous orators of Cicero's day are lost, as are those of Crassus and Antonius, the much admired figures of his boyhood, with whom, according to the Brutus, Roman oratory first equalled Greek. Yet though we know little of the other orators of the Roman Republic, it is possible by a study of Cicero's speeches and of his oratorical writings to get a fairly good idea of his special characteristics.A passage in the Brutus will serve as a useful introduction to a brief study of Ciceronian oratory.[‘Before the time of Hortensius] there was no orator’, says Cicero, ‘who appeared to have studied literature more deeply than the common run of men—literature which is the fountain-head of perfect eloquence; no one who had embraced philosophy—the mother of all good deeds and good words; no one who had learnt civil law—a thing most necessary for private cases, and essential to the orator's good judgement; no one who had at his command the traditions of Rome, from which if occasion demanded he could call up most trustworthy witnesses from the dead; no one who by rapid and neat mockery of his opponent could unbend the minds of the jurymen and turn them for a while from solemnity to smiling and laughter; no one who could widen an issue and bring his speech from a limited dispute referring to a particular person or time to a general question of universal application; no one who could delight by a temporary digression from the issue, or could move the judge to anger or to tears, or in fact—which is the special quality of the orator—could turn his feelings whithersoever the occasion demanded.’

Legal Dilemmas

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don Herzog
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Common Law ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead ◽  
The Law ◽  
Star Chamber ◽  
Tort Claims

The chapter launches with Star Chamber proceedings against Lewis Pickering: in the sixteenth century, defaming the dead could be a crime. And that remains true even in today’s United States. But as the common law sharpened the distinction between tort and crime, it rejected the view that such defamation could be a tort. Tort claims extinguished when either plaintiff or defendant died. And when aggrieved survivors sued, the law held they hadn’t been wronged, even if they had been harmed, so they couldn’t recover, either.

Abdominal Pain in a Young Girl Due to Congenital Stenosis of the Common Bile Duct with Mucus Plug Formation

1992 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suresh Vedantham ◽  
Frank C. Taylor ◽  
David K. Yousefzadeh ◽  
Pascal Udekwu ◽  
J. Richard Thistlethwaite ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Abdominal Pain ◽  
Bile Duct ◽  
Common Bile Duct ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
The Common ◽  
Mucus Plug ◽  
Plug Formation

scholarly journals The Honour of the Dead – the Moral Right of Integrity Post-Mortem

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 485-518
Author(s):  
Jani McCutcheon
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Common Law ◽  
Moral Rights ◽  
Legal Rights ◽  
Post Mortem ◽  
French Canadian ◽  
Philosophical Debate ◽  
Comprehensive Examination ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Dead

Can the honour of the dead be prejudiced? There is much philosophical debate about whether the dead can, or should, enjoy legal rights. Australia, like many jurisdictions, has apparently bypassed that debate and confers post-mortem moral rights on authors, which endure for at least 70 years after an author's death. The Australian moral right of integrity protects authors from certain conduct in relation to their copyright works, which is prejudicial to their honour or reputation. This deliberate conferral of a posthumous right ostensibly acknowledges that a deceased author's honour can be harmed. This article examines questions surrounding the apparent conundrum of posthumous prejudice to an author's honour. How can prejudice to the honour of the dead be established in the absence of the author, particularly if honour is interpreted subjectively? Do insuperable evidentiary hurdles render the posthumous honour limb of the moral right of integrity illusory? The article concentrates on Australian law, but engages in relevant comparative treatments, particularly with French, Canadian and United Kingdom law. Judicial consideration of moral rights under the common law is scant, particularly in Australia, and rarer still in a post-mortem context. However, the issues explored in the article are important, will inevitably arise for consideration and merit a comprehensive examination.

Nicagoras of Athens and the Lateran Obelisk

1987 ◽  
Vol 107 ◽  
pp. 51-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garth Fowden
Keyword(s):  
Eleusinian Mysteries ◽  
The Dead

One day in the year 326 of our era Nicagoras, torch-bearer of the Eleusinian mysteries, made his way unsuspectingly past the buried tomb of Tutankhamun in the Valley of the Kings near Thebes, and climbed towards the entrance of the tomb immediately above it. Though it had itself long since been robbed, the making of Ramses VI's sepulchre had at least produced a generous scree, to which Tutankhamun owed his current oblivion and future fame. Scrambling cautiously over this, and the accumulation of sand and stones in the tomb's entrance, Nicagoras followed his dragoman down a long corridor. We can tell from its thick encrustation of graffiti that this tomb was by far the most popular with visitors; and Nicagoras's practised guide knew exactly what appealed to the different sorts of people who made up his clientèle. Learning that the Athenian was a priest, and a cultured man with philosophical interests, he made a point of stopping in front of a scene which shows the soul standing before Osiris, the god of the dead, thanks to which this tomb is sometimes called the ‘Tomb of Metempsychosis’.

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