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On Kinesias’ musicopoetic paranomia
Get PDFIn this article I focus on the New Poet Kinesias and on the ways in which he was depicted, ridiculed, and criticized in our sources. I contextualize his depiction as a poetic and musical corrupter and as a thin and disabled individual within the criticism of the New Music in late fifth- and early fourth-century philosophical works, namely those by Plato and Aristotle, to argue that he was considered the poet who embodied the musicopoetic paranomia and the lack of orthotēs in the New Music. I also bring into my analysis a fragment from a speech of Lysias against Kinesias, where I focus on the accusations against the poet, in order to show that both his political actions (as described in the fragment and in Athenaeus who transmits the passage) and his experimentations with the chorus and with poetic performances were interpreted as a threat to the coherence and stability of the community
Nick Salvato, Obstruction
Get PDFNick Salvato, Obstruction Durham: Duke UP, 2016. Pp263. ISBN 978-0-8223-6098-8 Theodora D. Patrona The Oxford dictionary online defines obstruction, as “a thing that impedes or prevents passage or progress; an obstacle or blockage.” Nick Salvato’s eponymous book, multilayered and thought-provoking, is an original study of five phenomena that while they ‘torment’ scholars and impede inquiry, for the author “they may, if properly directed, be conducive to critical work and valuable, more broad..
Correction to: A cell-cycle signature classifier for pan-cancer analysis
No full textIn the original published version, the list of authors was incomplete. Theodora A. Constantin was missing, and Neha Tabassum and Theodora A. Constantin share first authorship. The correct author list is given above. The original article has been corrected. DOI to original article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41388-020-01426-
Citizenship, identity and immigration in the European Union: between past and future (paperback edition)
No full textEuropean citizenship, identity and immigration are constitutive issues facing the European polity and have important consequences for domestic political systems. There has been a great deal published about citizenship within the setting of the nation-state and comparative immigration policies, but relatively little has been written on their theorisation in a post-national, post-statist context, such as the EU, and on alternative European institutional designs.Now available in paperback, this volume blends normative political theory with European integration, and develops an original theoretical framework for European Union citizenship, identity and immigration as well as a set of policy proposals for institutional reform. Challenging the conventionally held views in these areas, the author argues that a constructive model of European citizenship and identity is vital to the construction of a democratic, heterogeneous and inclusive European polity.Contents:Introduction1. European identity2. The institutional construction of European identity3. New horizons, old constraints and the Amsterdam compromise4. In search of a theory5. Constructive citizenship in the European Union6. Schengenland and its alternative7. European identity in praxis: From the land ethic to an ethic of dwellingConclusionInde
Competing generic narratives in Aeschylus' Oresteia
No full textThis chapter explores the representation of lyric poetry in tragedy, with a focus on how tragedy can incorporate multiple lyric genres simultaneously. It argues that generic interaction can be used to create a narrative arc and can guide the audience’s interpretation of the broader action. Rather than detailed allusion or intertextuality, we find small-scale references which may not seem noteworthy when taken in isolation, but which over the course of a play build up a pattern of association. Since genres carry different sets of connotations, the poet can create conflicting arcs, and bring them into tension to explore different possible outcomes, or competing motivations on the part of the characters. The chapter uses Aeschylus' Oresteia as a case-study, and argues that the trilogy codes the genres of paian and epinikion to be associated with competing ethical standpoints in the play
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