The Enigma of the Visible

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia Judovitz
Keyword(s):  
Mary Magdalene ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Spoken Words

This chapter begins with an analysis of La Tour’s allegorical paintings of blind hurdy-gurdy musicians in order to explore the deceptive, even blinding, character of ordinary vision. These renderings of music making and audition (whose invisibility defies vision and challenges the representational purview of painting) are examined in reference to his portrayals of St. Jerome and Mary Magdalene. Figuring the attainment of spiritual insight rather than sight, these devotional works attest to a contemplative mode of seeing illuminated by the biblical Word. They challenge the viewer by attempting to depict what painting cannot ultimately show: namely, spoken words, audition, the passage of time, and spiritual passions reflecting changes of heart.

Representational specificity of lexical form in the perception of spoken words

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Conor T. McLennan ◽  
Paul A. Luce ◽  
Jan Charles-Luce
Keyword(s):  
Spoken Words

Toucher II: Keep Your Hands to Yourself, Jean-Luc Nancy

Derrida Today ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 84-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
McQuillan Martin
Keyword(s):  
Modern Literature ◽  
Mary Magdalene

This text begins by considering the phrase ‘digital haptology’ as suggested by the closing pages of Derrida's Le Toucher. It suggests that this moment in telecommunications presents a model of ‘tele-haptology’. The text goes on to consider Jean-Luc Nancy's ‘Noli me tangere’ as a response to Le Toucher. In particular it is concerned with Nancy's hypothesis on Modern literature and art as having an essential link to the gospel parables. Through a reading of Nancy's text and the gospels, this hypothesis is placed in doubt. Notably, the argument is made that once again Nancy's discourse on touching leads him to make a too hasty fore-closure of otherness within his intended deconstruction of reading and his account of Mary Magdalene. In response to Nancy's formulation of literature as parable, an alternative consideration of literature as tele-haptology is proposed.

Music of Tragedy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi A. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Late Work ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Dramatic Action ◽  
Instrumental Accompaniment ◽  
And Performance

The Music of Tragedy offers a new approach to the study of classical Greek theater by examining the use of musical language, imagery, and performance in the late work of Euripides. Drawing on the ancient conception of mousikē, in which words, song, dance, and instrumental accompaniment were closely linked, Naomi Weiss emphasizes the interplay of performance and imagination—the connection between the chorus’s own live singing and dancing in the theater and the images of music-making that frequently appear in their songs. Through detailed readings of four plays, she argues that the mousikē referred to and imagined in these plays is central to the progression of the dramatic action and to ancient audiences’ experiences of tragedy itself. She situates Euripides’s experimentation with the dramaturgical effects of mousikē within a broader cultural context, and in doing so, she shows how he both continues the practices of his tragic predecessors and also departs from them, reinventing traditional lyric styles and motifs for the tragic stage.

Task Estimation Using Latent Semantic Analysis of Visual Scenes and Spoken Words

2012 ◽  
Vol 132 (9) ◽  
pp. 1473-1480
Author(s):  
Masashi Kimura ◽  
Shinta Sawada ◽  
Yurie Iribe ◽  
Kouichi Katsurada ◽  
Tsuneo Nitta
Keyword(s):  
Latent Semantic Analysis ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
Spoken Words ◽  
Visual Scenes
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