164 research outputs found
Ignas Šeinius as self-editor
No full textStraipsnio objektas – Igno Šeiniaus ankstyvojo kūrybos laikotarpio novelių „Vidūnaktį“, „Ruduo“, „Rimošiaus atostogos“, feljetono „Lietuvis iš Paryžiaus“, pamfleto „Kaip Jackus tapo mokslo vyras“ ir eilėraščių „Melas ir vargas“, „Patrijotams“ autoredakcijos. Išskyrus novelę „Rimošiaus atostogos“, kiti tekstai priklauso ankstyvajam Šeiniaus kūrybos laikotarpiui, kai jis aktyviai dalyvavo steigiant naujus periodinius leidinius, artimai bendravo su jų redaktoriais, polemizavo kalbos norminimo klausimais, ne sykį drausdamas redakcijoms redaguoti jo atsiųstus tekstus. Straipsnio tikslas – atskleisti redagavimų priežastis ir kokybinius tekstų pokyčius. Tiriant ir lyginant paskiras redakcijas prieinama prie išvadų, kad daugiausia dėmesio Šeinius skyrė žodingumui, dialektizmams, ortografijos paprastumui, tačiau beveik nekeisdavo sakinio struktūros ir tik retais atvejais koreguodavo patį kūrinį. Šiuo atžvilgiu daugiausiai redaguotas tik eilėraštis „Melas ir vargas“ ir novelė „Ruduo“. Darbe remiamasi aprašomuoju ir iš dalies tekstologinės bei lyginamosios analizės metodais. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Ignas Šeinius; Proza; Poezija; Rankraščiai; Tekstologija; Ignas Šeinius; Prose; Poetry; Manuscripts; TextologyBased on the assumption that the fact of publishing his piece of writing for Ignas Šeinius was not more important than the authenticity of the published text because, as the entries in his diary, remarks in his letters to editors and his address on linguistic issues in the article The Art of Lithuania testify, he was concerned with publishing an author’s or authorised variant of a literary work and placing confidence in the creator, his idea and talent. The author of the present paper uses comparative and descriptive methods to determine the actual relation of Ignas Šeinius to, as he puts it, once written work, what and how systematically he revised, changed and corrected... To this end, the paper deals with the self-editing of the short-stories of his early period Vidunaktį (At Midnight), Ruduo (Autumn) and the feuilleton Lietuvis iš Paryžiaus (A Lithuanian from Paris) published in Viltis, Lietuvos žinios and the short-prose collection Nakties žiburiai (1914) compiled by Šeinius himself, the pamphlet Kaip Jackus tapo mokslo vyras (How Jackus Became a Man of Letters) published in Lietuvos žinios and preserved in its original manuscript, also the poems Melas ir vargas (Lie and Misery), Patrijotams (To the Patriots) and the short-story Rimošiaus atostogos (Rimošius’ Holidays), which have survived only in manuscripts. The study leads to the conclusion that when preparing his pieces of writing for publishing, the author was quite faithful to two principles – linguistic diversity, including dialecticisms, and orthographical simplicity. The poem Melas ir vargas was the only one subject to most essential editing by giving it a ring composition and a more regular rhythm highlighting the theme. Nevertheless, even scarce, the facts of self-editing of Ignas Šeinius are not only of interest to the researchers of his creative heritage, but can also be of use to the historians
Book review: Waging war: a new philosophical introduction by Ian Clark
No full textThe 2nd edition of Waging War: A New Philosophical Introduction offers a farreaching engagement with both the practice of, and theorisations on, waging war today. Ignas Kalpokas finds that its author, Ian Clark, effectively questions many ostensibly selfevident assumptions regarding warfare, thereby avoiding the reiteration of familiar and simplistic conceptual categorisations and binaries
Book review: the Middle Ages
No full textIn Johannes Fried’s The Middle Ages, the author makes his case for an alternative interpretation of the medieval period as much more sophisticated than commonly thought, writes Ignas Kalpokas. The book intricately traces how ideas and systems of thought that we now consider quintessentially modern European ways of life, thinking and culture stemmed from this time period
Book Review: The Middle Ages : [Rezension zu:] The Middle Ages. Johannes Fried. Harvard University Press. 2015
No full textIn Johannes Fried’s The Middle Ages, the author makes his case for an alternative interpretation of the medieval period as much more sophisticated than commonly thought, writes Ignas Kalpokas. The book intricately traces how ideas and systems of thought that we now consider quintessentially modern European ways of life, thinking and culture stemmed from this time period
Being and appearing in "siegfried immerselbe atsijaunina" by ignas šeinius.
No full textBeing and Appearing in "Siegfried Immerselbe atsijaunina" by Ignas Šeinius The aim of this paper is to analyse satirical novel Siegfried Immerselbe atsijaunina by the Lithuanian author Ignas Šeinius (1889-1959). The research is based on several theoretical approaches, mainly Yuri Lotman's cultural semiotics assumptions and the ideas expressed in Roland Barthes’ essay Writing Degree Zero. This dissertation focuses on the modalities of being and appearing discussed in Algirdas Julien Greimas’ theory. Paper describes the dialectical structure of the meaning in Šeinius’ text and through it showcases the mechanisms of revealing laughter. The reconstruction of the interwar Lithuanian sociopolitical discourse attempts to show how the historical and universal value systems function in the text, what significance their relationship has to the structure of the meaning
Characterization of exoplanet atmospheres using high-dispersion spectroscopy with the E-ELT and beyond
No full textGround-based high-dispersion (R ∼ 100,000) spectroscopy provides unique information on exoplanet atmospheres, inaccessible from space - even using the JWST or other future space telescopes. Recent successes in transmission- and dayside spectroscopy using CRIRES on the Very Large Telescope prelude the enormous discovery potential of high-dispersion spectrographs on the E-ELT, such as METIS in the thermal infrared, and HIRES in the optical/near-infrared. This includes the orbital inclination and masses of hundred(s) of non-transiting planets, line-by-line molecular band spectra, planet rotation and global wind patterns, longitudinal spectral variations, and possibly isotopologue ratios. Thinking beyond the E-ELT, we advocate that ultimately a systematic search for oxygen in atmospheres of nearby Earth-like planets can be conducted using large arrays of relatively low-cost flux collector telescopes equipped with high-dispersion spectrographs
Measuring the high redshift space density of FRI radio galaxies: investigating the nature of the FRI/II divide
No full textThe results are presented here of multi-wavelength observations
centred on two fields of the Leiden-Berkeley Deep Survey, which form the basis
for a study of the population and cosmic evolution of the high
redshift, low power, Fanaroff & Riley class I (FRI) radio galaxies.
These fields, Hercules.1 and Lynx.2, contain a complete sample of 81
radio sources with S_1.4GHz > 0.5 mJy within 0.6 square
degrees. Wide-field, ~1.5 arcsec resolution, radio observations,
along with near infra-red and optical imaging, and some multi-object
spectroscopy, are used to select the best high-redshift FRI
candidates, giving 37 in total. Currently, the host galaxy
identification fraction is 86% with 11
sources remaining unidentified at a level of r > 25.2
(Hercules; 4 sources) or r > 24.4 (Lynx; 7 sources) and
K > 20. Spectroscopic redshifts are determined for
49% of the sample and photometric redshift estimates are presented for the
sample sources without spectra or previously published results.95% of the 37 best FRI high-redshift candidate sources were then observed using
sub-arcsecond radio resolution, with the aim of detecting extended
emission with respect to compact core features - vital for
unambiguous morphological classification. The nature of the radio
observations meant that 10 extra sample sources could also be included
in the data. Lower resolution data were also taken
for the Lynx.2 field sources to provide a comparison with the
1.5 arcsec data.The classification of the entire radio sample is done in two
stages. Sources which showed clear extension are classified by
morphology alone, whereas sources with no obvious or weak extension
were classified using a combination of morphology and flux density
loss in the higher resolution data indicative of resolved out extended emission. Five
groups are used for this - `Certain FRIs', `Likely FRIs', `Possible FRIs', `Unclassifiable
sources' (for those not included in the higher resolution
observations) and `Not FRIs'. The final group numbers are 8, 10, 24,
33 and 6 for groups 1-5 respectively.The space densities of the maximum, probable and minimum FRIs are then
calculated and compared to two previously published measurements of the
local value, and with the behaviour of the strongest FRII sources. The results
for all three groups show density enhancements of factors of 5-9 at
z ~ 1.0 which implies cosmic evolution of the FRI population; this
enhancement is also in very good agreement with that predicted by previous
models. The behaviour of the FRI/FRII dividing luminosity, as a
function of host galaxy absolute magnitude, at the different cosmic
epochs of the sample, and for two different star formation histories,
is also investigated. A shift to brighter absolute magnitudes is found
to be inconsistent with the data but this conclusion is weak due to
the lack of knowledge of the host galaxy stellar populations, and the
small number of sources in the sample
En route to finding extraterrestrial life
No full textThe last decade has seen an enormous leap forward in the characterization of extrasolar planet atmospheres, with ground-based telescopes playing a unique and increasingly important role. The prospects for the ELT are extremely exciting, and characterizing rocky exoplanets will be at the heart of its science. The detection of potential biomarker gases, such as molecular oxygen, can provide the first evidence of extraterrestrial life before the end of the next decade
Secrets of the Swedish archives: in search of Ignas Šeinius' traces
No full textStraipsnyje glaustai apžvelgiamas Švedijos valstybės archyvo (Riksarkivet) palikimas, susijęs su Nepriklausomos Lietuvos diplomato bei lietuvių rašytojo Igno Jurkūno Šeiniaus gyvenimu politine veikla bei kūryba Švedijoje. Pasitelkus Baltijos archyvą Stokholme (Baltiska arkivet) bei asmeninį rašytojo sūnaus Irvio Scheynius archyvą, aptariami keli Igno Šeiniaus asmenybės aspektai: jo kaip diplomato politinė bei visuomeninė veikla, psichologinis kūrėjo asmenybės formavimasis, santykiai su Lietuvos kultūros aplinka bei konkrečiais rašytojais. Į domesių lauką pakliūva ne tik unikalūs istoriniai faktai (vadinamoji „baltų pabėgėlių byla“), bet ir iki šiol nepublikuota epistolinė kitų Lietuvos rašytojų (Balio Sruogos, Jurgio Savickio ir kt.) medžiaga. Reikšminiai žodžiai: Švedijos valstybinis archyvas; Baltijos archyvas Stokholme; "Baltų pabėgėlių byla"; Igno Šeiniaus korespondencija; Materials of the Ewedish archives; The diplomat writer Ignas Seinius; "Case of the Balts refugees"; Corespondence with the Lithuanian writersThe article looks in brief into the heritage of the Swedish national archive (Riksarkivet) connected to life, political activities, and creative endeavors of an independent Lithuanian diplomat and Lithuanian writer Ignas Jurkūnas in Sweden. The author uses the Baltic archive in Stockholm (Baltiska arkivet) and a personal archive of the writer’s son Irvis Scheynius to discuss several aspects of Ignas Šeinius personality: his political and social activities in the role of a diplomat, psychological formation of creator’s personality, relations with Lithuanian cultural environment and particular writers. The author’s attention captures not only unique historical facts (so-called “case of Baltic refugees“), but also epistolic, previously unpublished, materials of other Lithuanian writers (Balys Sruoga, Jurgis Savickis and others)
Planets orbiting other stars: the search for extraterrestrial life
No full textSince the Nobel-prize-winning discovery of a planet orbiting a sun-like star, the field of extrasolar planets is undergoing a true revolution. Thousands of planets have been found, of which some may be like Earth. Could there be biological activity on any of these, and how do we find out
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