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Grecoslavo e bulgaro. Paralleli tipologici romanzi
Get PDFThrough typological parallels with the Romance languages, the Author supports the thesis that there are not sufficient phonological reasons to define Old Church Slavonic as ‘Old Bulgarian’. He prefers to use the term ‘Greek-Slavic’ because of the strict adherence of this language to the Greek model.Through typological parallels with the Romance languages, the Author supports the thesis that there are not sufficient phonological reasons to define Old Church Slavonic as ‘Old Bulgarian’. He prefers to use the term ‘Greek-Slavic’ because of the strict adherence of this language to the Greek model
“The Breathlessness of History” in the Russian Poetry of the 1910s and Early 1920s: Toward the Question of Meaning in Jakobson’s Meta-Language Metaphor
Get PDFThe article observes the literary, biographical and scientific context of the pneumatological metaphor that Roman Jakobson applied to rationalize the tragic fate of Russian poets after the October Revolution. The author traces Romantic and mythological sources in the motif of‘a poet’s suffocation’ and discovers how a symbolic image transforms into a social fact. The article also outlines the reasons why Jakobson united five ‘mutually antagonistic’ poets into a synchronic poetic circle, at the center of which was the art of Vladimir Majakovskij. Besides the obvious motif of predicted death under the conditions of the establishment of the Soviet revolutionary byt (lifestyle), the poets are united by the culture of their language. Majakovskij’s language correlates with the paradigm of how A. Blok, N. Gumilëv, S. Esenin and V. Chlebnikov arranged their lives. In their own way, each of these poets fills the hypothetical ‘air of the epoch’ with particular olfactory markers and creates their variant of the artistic pneumatology. Every persona in the article on Majakovskij’s death is characterized by sways between the comic and tragic modes of the poetic device. According to Jakobson, the union of the generation of poets was preconditioned by the sense and sound of the poetic speech. His article about Majakovskij helps to trace one of the most stable plots in Jakobson’s output. Throughout his life, starting from the early works about the modern poetry (1921) until the last works on language that establish a direct connection between the lifespan of a poetic device and the structure of the national language, Jakobson addresses questions concerning the meaning of ‘the place of development’ in poetics.The article observes the literary, biographical and scientific context of the pneumatological metaphor that Roman Jakobson applied to rationalize the tragic fate of Russian poets after the October Revolution. The author traces Romantic and mythological sources in the motif of‘a poet’s suffocation’ and discovers how a symbolic image transforms into a social fact. The article also outlines the reasons why Jakobson united five ‘mutually antagonistic’ poets into a synchronic poetic circle, at the center of which was the art of Vladimir Majakovskij. Besides the obvious motif of predicted death under the conditions of the establishment of the Soviet revolutionary byt (lifestyle), the poets are united by the culture of their language. Majakovskij’s language correlates with the paradigm of how A. Blok, N. Gumilëv, S. Esenin and V. Chlebnikov arranged their lives. In their own way, each of these poets fills the hypothetical ‘air of the epoch’ with particular olfactory markers and creates their variant of the artistic pneumatology. Every persona in the article on Majakovskij’s death is characterized by sways between the comic and tragic modes of the poetic device. According to Jakobson, the union of the generation of poets was preconditioned by the sense and sound of the poetic speech. His article about Majakovskij helps to trace one of the most stable plots in Jakobson’s output. Throughout his life, starting from the early works about the modern poetry (1921) until the last works on language that establish a direct connection between the lifespan of a poetic device and the structure of the national language, Jakobson addresses questions concerning the meaning of ‘the place of development’ in poetics
Praxis and Logos. The Archetype of Human Transformation in Słowacki and Norwid
Get PDFPost-Hegelian philosophy and French utopian socialism find a point of convergence in the so-called ‘philosophy of action’ that was devised in Poland. Its implications were both original and fruitful, and represent the underlying doctrinal theory of the poetics of several writers of Polish literary romanticism. This article analyzes the presence of some instances of the philosophical system of August von Cieszkowski in the poetics of C.K. Norwid and J. Słowacki. Special emphasis is placed on some affinities between these two writers, concerning the figure of Christ-Truth-Love, eternal Logos, that resolves the contradiction between the immanent and the transcendent, and the asymmetric relationship with God, an absolute mystery. Christ is the truth revealed and the reason for salvation ‘here and now’, either when man should follow him with his cross, as Norwid would contend, or when he should imitate him through martyrdom, as put forth by Słowacki, for example in The Constant Prince.Post-Hegelian philosophy and French utopian socialism find a point of convergence in the so-called ‘philosophy of action’ that was devised in Poland. Its implications were both original and fruitful, and represent the underlying doctrinal theory of the poetics of several writers of Polish literary romanticism. This article analyzes the presence of some instances of the philosophical system of August von Cieszkowski in the poetics of C.K. Norwid and J. Słowacki. Special emphasis is placed on some affinities between these two writers, concerning the figure of Christ-Truth-Love, eternal Logos, that resolves the contradiction between the immanent and the transcendent, and the asymmetric relationship with God, an absolute mystery. Christ is the truth revealed and the reason for salvation ‘here and now’, either when man should follow him with his cross, as Norwid would contend, or when he should imitate him through martyrdom, as put forth by Słowacki, for example in The Constant Prince
Sociologia esistenziale: per un materialismo dematerializzato
Get PDFThis paper presents an attempt to reconcile the opposing viewpoints of philosophy and sociology through existential sociology. Its starting point is the notion of freedom, which is central to existential philosophy. If a human being is free, even ‘condemned to be free’, why in our experience do we mostly perceive that we are not? Why do we have the opposite feeling?To answer this question the article focuses on the notion of practico-inert, a term coined by Jean-Paul Sartre in the Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960). Practical activities and material structures, learnt or inherited from previous generations, have the effect of limiting or nullifying true freedom of action. The practico-inert expresses the exigency of matter or of mute, inanimate objects as a sort of inert, imposed finality. Material exigencies become a crucial category of the Critique for characterizing the way we experience and respond to the force of materiality, which every time becomes a dematerialized material
Historical considerations regarding the first descriptions of pancreas’ anatomy
Get PDFThe descriptions of the term “pancreas” as well the macroscopic anatomy of the pancreas throughout Antiquity, Byzantium, Middle Ages and Renaissance are displayed. In particular, the original phrases of famous physicians of that period as regards the anatomy of the pancreas are presented: Hippocrates, Aristotle, Herophilus, Galen, Rufus of Efesus, Julius Pollux, Oribasius, Bartolomeo Eustachio, Andreas Vesalius, Gabriel Fallopius, Johann Georg Wirsung, Francis Glisson, Giovanni Domenico Santorini
Incidence of the tympanic foramen in the population of Northeast Brazil
Get PDFThe persistence of the tympanic foramen (or of Huschke) in individuals after second childhood constitutes a failure in the embryological development of the tympanic cavity. When present, it is on the anterior wall of the external acoustic meatus and is associated with important otological complications of the temporomandibular joint and external acoustic meatus. To report on the incidence of tympanic foramen in adult dry skulls, belonging to the population of the Northeast of Brazil, 87 adult skulls obtained from the Human Anatomy Laboratory of 4 universities of the Northeast of Brazil, without knowledge of gender, race and age were analyzed. The 174 temporal bones were examined for presence, morphology and measurements of the longitudinal and transverse diameter of the tympanic foramen. The incidence of tympanic foramen was 24.14%, found in 15 (17.24%) skulls on the right and 18 (20.68%) on the left side. Unilateral tympanic foramen was observed in 10 (11.50%) skulls, bilateral in 9 (10.34%) and multiple in 2 (2.30%). The form of tympanic foramen was mainly irregular. In conclusion, the higher prevalence of tympanic foramen found in the Northeast among other studies carried out in Brazil can be attributed to specific dietary habits in the region that could induce the later foramen occlusion
A dissection based study of the dimensions of the thyroid cartilage in Anatolian population
Get PDFAccurate knowledge of the dimension, shape, and morphology of larynx and its complex anatomy is a prerequisite for performing surgery of the larynx. Population differences are important not only for planning surgical interventions but also for performing an operation. Previous morphometrical studies on the larynx had shown variable results obtained from different populations, including Western and Eastern ones, yet information about larynx morphometry in Anatolian population is limited. The purpose of this study is to make more statistical data available for Anatolian population and help clinicians for surgical approaches related to this area. Ten parameters from anterior and lateral views were measured on 50 thyroid cartilages taken from autopsy specimens (28 male, 22 female). Specimens were removed and dissected under stereomicroscope after routine fixation procedure. Those with visible deformations were eliminated during dissections. Statistical evaluations and comparisons were done for a comprehensive description. Significant sexual differences were observed. Mean values for all parameters were higher in males than in females. These results were compared with already existing anatomical data of other populations. This study on larynx specimens from different regions of Anatolia provides a general knowledge of thyroid cartilage dimensions. The obtained results can have great clinical influence on surgical approaches to the related area and give information for anthropomorphic studies
Acting and Reading Drama: Notes on Florentine sacre rappresentazioni in Print
Get PDFThe purpose of the article is to investigate the complex link between theatre, as a practice involving a number of people, and the change in the use of dramatic texts occurred at the origins of the Italian printing industry, when dramatic texts were no longer only acted but also read as books. With the invention of printed books, theatre has been transformed from a performative action to a container of memory images fixed through the book illustration. On the one hand, the article investigates the printed tradition of sacre rappresentazioni (‘sacred plays’) in connection with the other religious literary texts published between the end of the fifteenth and the beginning of sixteenth centuries, putting it in relation with the birth of devotional books widely used in Florence during the age of Savonarola. On the other hand, it deals with the problem of illustrations by reconstructing the relationship between faithful people and sacred images before their diffusion was multiplied by the printing industry, and by looking at the real meaning of the link between written texts and woodcuts, in order to understand how the sacra rappresentazione, being a dramatic genre, was conceived when it was transformed into an object for reading