scholarly journals Lusatian Folklore in the Slavic Research of the Italian Wolfango (Wolf) Giusti

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 36-44
Author(s):  
Yarema Kravets’ ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Research Papers ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
Mood Classification ◽  
The Way ◽  
Literary Legacy

Purpose: The article is devoted to the Sorbian studies work of the Italian Slavic scholar of Lusatian origin Wolfango Giusti (1901-1980) “The Folk Lusatian Serbian Song” (1926), totally unknown in Ukrainian Slavic scholars’ circles. The author of a large number of Sorbian studies publications printed in the 1920s and 1930s in the pages of Italian Slavic editions, he became a true popularizer of Lusatian culture, and his works found a special reverberation in the research papers of authoritative Sorbian scholars. W. Giusti’s name as researcher and translator has recently been more frequently mentioned in Slavistic publications, his interest in Ukrainian poetry, esp. in the 1920s, is written about. The interest in W. Giusti’s literary legacy is linked, in particular, to his being interested in T. Shevchenko’s and M. Shashkevych’s lyrics. In the research under analysis, the Italian scholar stressed that “the soul of the Lusatian people has found its best and fullest expression in their folk song”. Also mentioned by W. Giusti were Ukrainian folk songs, rich in their multi-genre samples. Results: The paper presents a classification of the most characteristic folk songs, the classification coming to be basis-providing for the Italian scholar: W. Giusti relied on authoritative research papers, including those by the scholars K. Fiedler and B. Krawc. The Italian Slavicist acquaints us with songs of love between brother and sister, love songs about the way of life of the whole people, songs resonating with the motif of fidelity. Neither has the literary scholar bypassed the issue of the neighbouring peoples’ influence experienced by Lusatian culture, particularly that of a Germanic culture, providing some examples of a “spiritual analogy” with German folk songs. W. Giusti completed his short essay by promising to offer the reader, before long, “other genres of the extremely rich Lusatian folklore”. The promise came to be fulfilled as early as the next year, in the work published under the title “Folk Lusatian Serbian Songs”. Key words: Lusatian folklore, Wolfango Giusti, folk song, motif of fidelity/infidelity, dramatic mood, classification of songs, aspects of “Wendish” folklore, Germanic influence.

Renu's Regionalism: Language and Form

1981 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-294 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathryn Hansen
Keyword(s):  
Folk Song ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Modern Novel ◽  
The Way

The modern Hindi writer Phanishwarnath Renu developed a distinctive “regional” style in his fiction, which Hindi critics have defined in terms of his focus on the way of life of a particular area, the Purnea region of northeastern Bihar. However, Renu's regionalism cannot be separated from his innovations in the language and form of fiction. He employed a variety of dialects and deviated from conventional spelling and grammar, to draw the reader into the rural universe of sound. He included indigenous genres, such as the folk song, folktale, and rural drama, within the frame of the modern novel, thereby creating a new structure for the regional novel.

Thinking at the Edges

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-116
Author(s):  
Nathan Houser ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
Social Unrest ◽  
Truth Values ◽  
Mental Operations ◽  
Charles Peirce ◽  
The Way

The field of semiotic studies requires borders to function as a discipline but as a living science it is essential that those borders be unheeded. When Charles Peirce opened the modern field of semiotic studies he understood that he was an intellectual pioneer preparing the way for future semioticians. Peirce’s decision to equate semiotics with logic would likely seem bizarre to most professional logicians today yet his decision followed naturally from his view that all mental operations are sign actions and that semiosis is inferential. Peirce’s life-long study of sign types eventually led to a detailed, though provisional, classification of sixty-six distinct varieties of semiosis, many of which generate emotions or reactions rather than thoughts. Only twenty-one classes of signs yield interpretants that carry truth values or purport to be truth-preserving; the sign actions associated with these signs constitute the sphere of intellectual semiosis. The remaining forty-five non-intellectual sign classes drive perception and dominate the often unconscious mental operations that support and enrich day-to-day life. But this is also the realm of semiosis where memes flourish, where emoji function, and where propaganda first strikes a chord. This is the semiotic sphere where communal feeling can be engendered, but it is also the sphere of mob psychology. We are in troubled times during which signs are being used strategically to create dissension and social unrest and to generate disrespect for the very institutions that maintain the intelligence and practices that are fundamental for the survival of our way of life. It is time for semioticians to join forces against the weaponization of signs and I believe an investigation of the more primitive non-intellectual sign classes that Peirce identified will help lay the groundwork for the coming battle.

scholarly journals ХОРОВА ОБРОБКА НАРОДНОЇ ПІСНІ У ТВОРЧОСТІ ГЕОРГІЯ МІРЕЦЬКОГО: ШЛЯХАМИ ВІДНОВЛЕННЯ СПАДЩИНИ МИТЦЯ

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Admink Admink
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Folk Songs ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
General Situation ◽  
General Context ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Musical Life ◽  
The 1950S

Здійснено спробу увести до сучасного музикознавства деякі аналітичні огляди творчості першого професійного композитора Волині, лучанина Георгія Мірецького (1929–1978 рр.), чия активна діяльність охопила 1950–1970-ті рр. Розглянуто спадщину митця, яка повертається до концертного життя за ініціативи сина Олександра. Опрацьовано вибрані хорові обробки волинських народних пісень, що стали однією з вершин творчості (на прикладі «Як билина та тополя» ор. 85 і «Такі оченьки» ор. 90 та вирізнено специфіку вказаних творів у контексті української хорової спадщини. Підкреслено, що композитор використовував оригінальні техніко-композиційні прийоми – імітацію інструментального звучання, вставки-цитування інших народних пісень; його обробкам притаманне використання елементів імітаційності в хорових партіях при домінуючій гармонічній основі тощо. Твори є внеском митця до скарбниці українського музичного фольклоризму.Ключові слова: волинська народна пісня, хорова обробка, музичне життя Луцька, творчість Георгія Мірецького. Attempting to bring some analytical reviews of the creativity by the first professional composer of modern Volyn Heorhii Miretskyi (1929–1978) from Lutsk, whose active engagement was carried out in the 1950s-1970s, was carried out in contemporary musicology. The general situation with the artist’s heritage is considered, which returns to the concert initiative and son Alexander’s main efforts. Selected choral transcriptions of Volyn folk songs which became one of the peaks by H. Miretskyi’s work on the example by “How to beil and poplars” op. 85 and “Such eyes” op. 90 worked out. The specificity of these works in the general context of Ukrainian choral heritage has been followed. It is emphasized that the composer uses original technical composition techniques – imitation of instrumental sound, insert-quote of other folk songs. The use of elements of imitation in choral parties with a dominant harmonious basis and others are characterize the transcriptions also. The works are artist’s contribution to the Ukrainian musical folklorism treasury. Key words: Volyn folk song, choral transcriptions, musical life of Lutsk, Heorhii Miretskyi’s creative.

The ‘unacceptable face’ of the West European Upper Palaeolithic

Antiquity ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 52 (206) ◽  
pp. 183-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul G. Bahn
Keyword(s):  
Harsh Environment ◽  
Upper Palaeolithic ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Additional Information ◽  
Standard Textbook ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Academic Debate ◽  
The Way

More than a century ago the publications of Gdouard Lartet laid the foundations for the nomenclature and stratigraphy of the French Upper Palaeolithic. Academic debate arising from Lartet's work continued until the 1930s by which time the framework and classification of the period were fixed. They have remained fairly static ever since. Indeed, the French system appeared unimpeachable, so that scholars strove to apply it, unchanged, to widely differing areas. Since the 1930s most work on the French sequence has been designed to confirm the results of old and 'untrustworthy' excavations, and to shore up an original framework with additional information. The situation is much the same for the way of life of palaeolithic man: the standard textbook description of savage hunters eking a living from a harsh environment was in vogue for a very long time, and one might be forgiven for believing that this hypothesis had always been dominant; this is not the case. It is little-known fact in this country that during the latter part of the nineteenth century there were major arguments in academic circles concerning the way of life in the Palaeolithic, and in particular the question of domestication during that period. Were it not for the demise of Piette and the subsequent dominance of Breuil, it is possible that the present orthodox account of the Upper Palaeolithic might be very different

The subject of the East in Joseph Arthur de Gobineau heritage

2020 ◽  
Vol 58 (9) ◽  
pp. 60-63
Author(s):  
Aliya Arastun Samadova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
The People ◽  
The Subject ◽  
East West ◽  
The Way

The French diplomat, sociologist, and writer Joseph Arthur de Gobineau always addressed the subject of the East in his works. Both in art and in publicist work Gobineau appeals to the description of the way of life and thinking, the criteria of life of the people of the East. His works are distinguished by high art and imagery. His works on the East are relevant and interesting in modern times through the prism of East-West relations. Key words: Arthur de Gobineau, diplomat, France, Europe, East

Small Industry, Gimmicks and Moscow Statistics, or How the Small Russian Enterprise Came into the World (Russian Physiological Sketch, 1830-1840)

2009 ◽  
pp. 123-129
Author(s):  
Yu. Golubitsky
Keyword(s):  
Small Businesses ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Russian Enterprise ◽  
Small Enterprises ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Small Industry ◽  
Xix Century

The article considers business practices of Moscow small industry in the XIX century, basing upon physiological sketches of N. Polevoy and I. Kokorev, statistical data and the classification of professions are also presented. The author claims that the heroes of the analyzed sketches are the forefathers of Moscow small businesses and shows what a deep similarity their occupations and a way of life bear to the present-day routine existence of small enterprises.

Narrative, Intertext and Allusion in the Qur'anic Presentation of Job

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. H. Johns
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Complex Network ◽  
Key Words And Phrases ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Western Tradition ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Job (Ayyūb) is a byword for patience in the Islamic tradition, notwithstanding only six Qur'anic verses are devoted to him, four in Ṣād (vv.41-4), and two in al-Anbiyā' (vv.83-4), and he is mentioned on only two other occasions, in al-Ancām (v.84) and al-Nisā' (v.163). In relation to the space devoted to him, he could be accounted a ‘lesser’ prophet, nevertheless his significance in the Qur'an is unambiguous. The impact he makes is achieved in a number of ways. One is through the elaborate intertext transmitted from the Companions and Followers, and recorded in the exegetic tradition. Another is the way in which his role and charisma are highlighted by the prophets in whose company he is presented, and the shifting emphases of each of the sūras in which he appears. Yet another is the wider context created by these sūras in which key words and phrases actualize a complex network of echoes and resonances that elicit internal and transsūra associations focusing attention on him from various perspectives. The effectiveness of this presentation of him derives from the linguistic genius of the Qur'an which by this means triggers a vivid encounter with aspects of the rhythm of divine revelation no less direct than that of visual iconography in the Western Tradition.

Maclaurin on Occasionalism: A Reply to Ablondi

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 125-135
Author(s):  
Patrick J. Connolly
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Recent Article ◽  
Gravitational Attraction ◽  
Matter Theory ◽  
Key Features ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Way

In a recent article Fred Ablondi compares the different approaches to occasionalism put forward by two eighteenth-century Newtonians, Colin Maclaurin and Andrew Baxter. The goal of this short essay is to respond to Ablondi by clarifying some key features of Maclaurin's views on occasionalism and the cause of gravitational attraction. In particular, I explore Maclaurin's matter theory, his views on the explanatory limits of mechanism, and his appeals to the authority of Newton. This leads to a clearer picture of the way in which Maclaurin understood gravitational attraction and the workings of nature.

Invention of Judaism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John J. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Way Of Life ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Way

Judaism is often understood as the way of life defined by the Torah of Moses, but it was not always so. This book identifies key moments in the rise of the Torah, beginning with the formation of Deuteronomy, advancing through the reform of Ezra, the impact of the suppression of the Torah by Antiochus Epiphanes and the consequent Maccabean revolt, and the rise of Jewish sectarianism. It also discusses variant forms of Judaism, some of which are not Torah-centered and others which construe the Torah through the lenses of Hellenistic culture or through higher, apocalyptic, revelation. It concludes with the critique of the Torah in the writings of Paul.

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