FORM AND TRANSFORMATION IN THE ‘NOCTURNE’ FROM BRITTEN'S ‘SERENADE FOR TENOR, HORN AND STRINGS’

Tempo ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (264) ◽  
pp. 30-39
Author(s):  
Michael Baker
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Transformational Theory ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Compositional Technique ◽  
Interval Cycles ◽  
Recent Developments

AbstractThe ‘Nocturne’ from Benjamin Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings (1943) presents a number of interesting melodic and motivic features effectively modelled by aspects of diatonic transformational theories. Following a brief review of important transformational operations in diatonic set theory (transposition within Mod-7 diatonic space, diatonic interval cycles, and ‘signature transformation’), this article presents an analysis of the ‘Nocturne’ drawing upon both traditional and recent developments in diatonic transformational theory. Doing so illustrates an intricate compositional technique, one that traces motivic associations in the vocal line, the horn part and the accompanying strings. A close reading reveals that these motivic techniques stem from the generic concept of echoing and reverberation at the heart of Tennyson's poem.

Toward a History of the "Soviet Language" (Sovyaz): Archival Documents, Electronic Sources, and the National Corpus

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 270-289
Author(s):  
Alexander Nakhimovsky
Keyword(s):  
Sensu Stricto ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Soviet Period ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Archival Documents ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research ◽  
Revolutionary Period ◽  
National Corpus

The subject matter of this paper is the "Soviet language" (SovYaz for short), a variety of Russian that was used in official contexts during the Soviet period. The use of the term "Soviet language" does not signify a commitment to viewing it as a language or a dialect in the linguistic sense. The question of whether SovYaz is, in fact, a social dialect sensu stricto, is beyond the scope of this paper and irrelevant to its purposes, although the materials presented here may help clarify the argument. This study of SovYaz seeks to utilize three relatively recent developments: newly opened archives with previously unimaginable sources of linguistic data; abundant searchable texts in electronic form; and a powerful new research tool, the National Corpus of the Russian Language (NCRL). The goal is methodological--to illustrate an approach to the study of SovYaz made possible by these new developments. The paper makes extensive use of the following procedure. First, a feature of SovYaz is identified in two documents selected for close reading, one a newspaper article, the other a top-secret NKVD report. That feature is then traced through other sources, including NCRL. The evolution of the feature is followed from the pre-revolutionary period to later times, sometimes all the way to the 21st century. Finally, the feature is described in some detail. In my experience, the emergence of the National Corpus makes possible a research methodology that transcends a close reading of selected documents but works well with it.

Hegel’s Leaps and the Historicist Theory of Knowledge

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nathan Coombs
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Marxist Theory ◽  
Theory Of Knowledge ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Revolutionary Change ◽  
Science Of Logic ◽  
Irrational Numbers ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Quantitative Properties

This chapter locates the roots of the Marxist theory of revolutionary change in G.W.F. Hegel’s philosophy. In the well-known formula, cumulative changes in quantitative properties give rise to a qualitative leap into the future. However, the chapter argues that the idea rests on shaky ontological foundations. Through a close reading of the Science of Logic, it is shown that Hegel’s idea of leaps relies on excising irrational numbers. To make his dialectical transitions work, Hegel has to dialecticise the mathematical infinite and ignore scientific epistemological breaks from the classical period onwards. This compares unfavourably to Alain Badiou, who makes Georg Cantor’s breakthrough with transfinite set theory the lynchpin for his discontinuous philosophy of events. The final section argues that Hegel’s notion of quantity to quality leaps is also complicit with the reformism and technological determinism promoted by key thinkers of Second International Marxism.

Intellectual Captivity

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-110
Author(s):  
Chen Bar-Itzhak
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Academic Field ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract This essay concerns the unequal distribution of epistemic capital in the academic field of World Literature and calls for an epistemic shift: a broadening of our theoretical canon and the epistemologies through which we read and interpret world literature. First, this epistemic inequality is discussed through a sociological examination of the “world republic of literary theory,” addressing the limits of circulation of literary epistemologies. The current situation, it is argued, creates an “intellectual captivity,” the ethical and political implications of which are demonstrated through a close reading of the acts of reading world literature performed by scholars at the center of the field. A few possible solutions are then suggested, drawing on recent developments in anthropology, allowing for a redistribution of epistemic capital within the discipline of World Literature: awareness of positionality, reflexivity as method, promotion of marginal scholarship, and a focus on “points of interaction.”

FROM LARGE CARDINALS TO BRAIDS VIA DISTRIBUTIVE ALGEBRA

1995 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
pp. 33-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
PATRICK DEHORNOY
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
Large Cardinals ◽  
Recent Developments

This text presents some recent developments in left distributive algebra induced by set theory and their applications to the combinatorics of braids mainly in terms of order properties and existence of special decompositions.

scholarly journals Ascertaining the ‘Guarantee of Guarantees’: Recent Developments Regarding the Infringement Procedure in the EU’s Rule of Law Crisis

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-236
Author(s):  
Matthias Schmidt ◽  
Piotr Bogdanowicz
Keyword(s):  
Rule Of Law ◽  
Critical Assessment ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Eu Law ◽  
The Rule Of Law ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Charter Of Fundamental Rights ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Eu

AbstractThis chapter builds on an assessment of infringement proceedings in the EU rule of law crisis that we previously published in the Common Market Law Review. We offer a close reading of two recent prominent infringement cases by the European Commission against Poland (cases C-619/18 and C-192/18). Noteworthy advancements in EU law made with them are in particular a clarification on the parallel use of Articles 7 TEU and 258 TFEU, the use of both interim relief and an expedited procedure prior to the judgment, and, as regards the merits, further substance for the functioning of Articles 19 TEU and 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights regarding the operationalisation of the rule of law in EU law. We offer a critical assessment of the Court’s findings and contextualise in light of two Commission communications on the rule of law published in 2019.

scholarly journals Co-instituting the Constituency

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Calvin Duggan
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Set Theory ◽  
Political System ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
Constitutive Relationship ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Constituent Power ◽  
Eu Referendum ◽  
The Eu

Traversing cultural studies and political theory, this paper asks how any representative is to represent a diverse constituency, given that any constituency is necessarily co-instituted—that is, made up of—multiple and conflicting bodies and interests. Arguing that the term has suffered from a deficit of enquiry within the theoretical and critical humanities, this article thus aims to re-figure the concept of constituency. The specific understanding of constituency formation within the context of British political system, something especially visible in the wake of the EU referendum and its aftermath, highlights that constituencies are understood within this context through an atomic logic—that is, that each constituency is made up of individual constituents. Thinking with the notion of constituent power allows for a better understanding of the co-instituted nature of constituencies: how and by whom they are co-created. This, in turn, undermines any understanding of political representation as a merely bi-directional practice between representative and constituency. Finally, a close reading of Ghislaine Leung’s CONSTITUTION helps probe further both a bi-directional account of constituency formation and the notion that constituencies are themselves atomically structured, upsetting set theory in the process and allowing us to better apprehend the co-constitutive relationship between constituency and constituent.  

scholarly journals Lines and Semi-Countably Differentiable Primes

2021 ◽  
Vol 70 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-98
Author(s):  
Abigaël Alkema
Keyword(s):  
Set Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Central Problem ◽  
Linear Graph ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Axiomatic Set Theory

Let l(u)⊃ |G|. A central problem in higher non-linear graph theoryis the construction of projective numbers. We show that Recent developments in axiomatic set theory [6] have raised the questionof whetherEis not dominated byl. On the other hand, the work in [6, 24] did not consider the hyper-real case.

A Distant View of Close Reading: On Irony and Terrorism around 1977

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-118
Author(s):  
György Fogarasi
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
Speed Range ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Assisted Analysis ◽  
Rhetorical Reading

Abstract In his article “A Distant View of Close Reading: On Irony and Terrorism around 1977,” György Fogarasi investigates the contemporary critical potentials of close reading in the light of recent developments in computation assisted analysis. While rhetorical reading has come to appear outdated in a “digital” era equipped with widgets for massive archival analysis (an era, namely, more keen on “distant,” rather than “close,” reading), Paul de Man’s insights concerning irony might prove useful in trying to account for the difficulties we must face in a world increasingly permeated with dissimulative forms of threat and violence. The article draws on three major texts from 1977: de Man’s draft on “Literature Z,” his lecture on “The Concept of Irony,” and the first and second Geneva Protocols. The reading of these texts purports to demonstrate the relevance of de Man’s theory of irony with respect to the epistemology of “terrorism,” but it also serves as an occasion to reflect upon questions of distance, speed, range, scale, or frequency, and the chances of “rhythmanalysis.”

scholarly journals Moment-to-Moment Guidance of Clinical Interventions by AEDP’s Healing-Oriented Transformational Phenomenology: Commentary on Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) Case of "Rosa"

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Diana Fosha
Keyword(s):  
Transformational Change ◽  
Clinical Work ◽  
Cultural Humility ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Multicultural Competencies ◽  
Transformational Theory ◽  
Descriptive Phenomenology ◽  
Clinical Action ◽  
Therapeutic Activities

This paper, using the methodology of moment-to-moment microanalysis of videotape-based clinical transcripts, explores how Nicole Vigoda Gonzalez’s (2018) case study manifests AEDP’s fundamental transformational phenomenology in clinical action. Vigoda Gonzalez’s highly effective AEDP therapy of Rosa is informed by AEDP’s first "avatar" or iteration (prior to 2008), at the time, a three-state phenomenology. Yet, a close reading of the case reveals the very transformational phenomena, systematically and abundantly reflected in the author’s clinical data, that necessitated the theoretical and clinical developments of AEDP’s second avatar (post-2008) and the current four-state model of transformational change. It is a validation both of the soundness of this student therapist's clinical work and of the accuracy and power of AEDP’s healing-oriented transformational theory that constructs not in the author’s repertoire are nevertheless reflected and illustrated in the unfolding of Rosa’s treatment. This most interesting and unusual experience further illustrates how a descriptive phenomenology, guided by AEDP’s North Star, i.e., its orientation toward the wired-in healing within, can constitute an empirically sound alternative to the manualization of psychotherapeutic treatments. Also uncannily, this parallels the emphasis in Owen's (2013) multicultural orientation (MCO) framework on the need for "values" or "virtues," such as cultural humility, to "inform therapeutic activities as an alternative to the focus on multicultural competencies."

Clara Schumann, “Liebst du um Schönheit” (1841)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurel Parsons ◽  
Brenda Ravenscroft
Keyword(s):  
Close Reading ◽  
General Notion ◽  
Tonal Structure ◽  
Flexible Approach ◽  
Generic Concept ◽  
Structural Levels ◽  
Multiple Configurations

Schenker’s concept of interruption represents a vital link between tonal structure and thematic design. A close reading of Schenker’s presentation of the concept in Free Composition reveals that interruption may take many outward musical configurations that differ from the type mentioned in most textbooks, especially at levels closer to the foreground, proposing a flexible approach to interruption in the description of myriad foreground musical events. Clara Schumann’s “Liebst du um Schönheit,” op. 12, no. 4, features a multiply interrupted structure, where the general notion of interruption occurs in multiple configurations and at differing structural levels. The numerous incomplete linear progressions and striking harmonic events in this song emanate from the generic concept of interruption, and are closely related to the overall form and message of Rückert’s poem.

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