217 research outputs found
Translation Studies, Cultural Context, and Dante
Get PDFIn his article, Translation Studies, Cultural Context, and Dante, Reuven Tsur explores limits of legitimacy in translation studies. Tsur\u27s approach is a critique of the theoretical assumptions and their application in Edoardo Crisafulli\u27s cultural interpretation of Seamus Heaney\u27s decisions in translating the Ugolino episode in Dante\u27s Inferno. Crisafulli claims that Heaney\u27s choices show internal consistency, and can be accounted for by appealing to the Irish situational context. Instead, Tsur argues that Crisafulli\u27s cultural interpretations are arbitrary and that a more satisfactory account can be offered through an analysis of constraints within a conception of the aesthetic object as an elegant solution to a problem. Another disagreement concerns the intertextual processes between Dante\u27s segment and Heaney\u27s volume of original poetry in which it is printed. It is suggested here that by juxtaposing two texts, high-salient features of one text may reinforce similar features in the other and promote their salience
Frontiers in Comparative Metrics V. In memory of Reuven Tsur and Barry Scherr. Call for Papers
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The Reuven Fahn Collection
No full textThe article, divided into five chapters, is devoted to the corpus of works by the Hebrew writer Reuven Fahn (1878–1939?) about the Karaites. The works consist of both research and literary writings. The article emphasizes the fact that Reuven Fahn was the only author who wrote stories about the lives of the Karaites in Hebrew. In the first chapter, parts of his life are depicted, emphasizing the period when he lived in the town of Halicz. The second describes briefly the variety of research and literary works he produced. The third deals with his approach as a religious Jew to research on the Karaites. The fourth studies his stories about various characters in the Karaite community and their customs. The stories demonstrate Reuven Fahn’s close familiarity with the Karaites, the compassion he felt toward them, as well as his criticism of them. The fifth is devoted to a description of seven Karaite legends that he personally heard from them and then put into writing in Hebrew. To finalize the picture, the history of the Karaites in WWII is briefly mentioned, as well as the immigration of part of the community to Israel in the 1950s. A list of selected works by Reuven Fahn concerning the Karaites is included in the article
Metre, rhythm and emotion in poetry. A cognitive approach
Get PDFThis essay integrates what I have written on the contribution of meter and rhythm to emotional qualities in poetry, opposing them to emotional contents. I distinguish between “meaning-oriented” approaches and “perceived effects” approaches, adopting the latter; and adopt a qualitative (rather than quantitative) method of research. Providing a simplified list of structural elements of emotion, I explore structural resemblances between rhythmic patterns and emotions. I investigate such issues as convergent and divergent poetic styles, convergent and divergent delivery styles, hypnotic poetry, the contribution of meter and rhythm to a “dignified quality”; and the rhythmic performance and emotional effect of stress maxima in weak positions. Finally, I locate my work between impressionist criticism on the one hand, and meaning-oriented criticism on the other.</jats:p
Acoustics and Resonance in Poetry: The Psychological Reality of Rhyme in Baudelaire’s “Les Chats”
Get PDFThis article uses the term “psychological reality” in this sense: the extent to which the constructs of linguistic theory can be taken to have a basis in the human mind, i.e., to somehow be reflected in human cognitive structures. This article explores the human cognitive structures in which the constructs of phonetic theory may be reflected. The last section is a critique of the psychological reality of sound patterns in Baudelaire’s “Les Chats”, as discussed in three earlier articles. In physical terms, it defines “resonant” as “tending to reinforce or prolong sounds, especially by synchronous vibration”. In phonetic terms it defines “resonant” as “where intense precategorical auditory information lingers in short-term memory”. The effect of rhyme in poetry is carried by similar overtones vibrating in the rhyme fellows, resonating like similar overtones on the piano. In either case, we do not compare overtones item by item, just hear their synchronous vibration. I contrast this conception to three approaches: one that points out similar sounds of “internal rhymes”, irrespective of whether they may be contained within the span of short-term memory (i.e., whether they may have psychological relit); one that claims that syntactic complexity may cancel the psychological reality of “internal rhymes” (whereas I claim that it merely backgrounds rhyme); and one that found through an eye-tracking experiment that readers fixate longer on verse-final rhymes than on other words, assuming regressive eye-movement (I claim that rhyme is an acoustic not visual phenomenon; and that there is a tendency to indicate discontinuation by prolonging the last sounds in ordinary speech and blank verse too, as well as in music — where no rhyme is involved)
How a fragment reflects : Poetics of Volter Kilpi's Archipelago cycle
No full textThis article explores the poetics of Volter Kilpi (1874–1939). Kilpi is known as the Finnish modernist author who wrote a most extraordinary and original series of works collectively known as the “Archipelago cycle” (the first novel of the cycle has been recently translated into German with the title Im Saal von Alastalo). The article uses cognitive poetics (Terence Cave, Caroline Levine and Reuven Tsur) to elucidate Kilpi’s style focusing on the emotional effects of Kilpi’s innovative language and narrative strategies. It offers a new approach to the author and the study of modernist poetics.Peer reviewe
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in Dialogue and Dissent
Get PDFCelebrating 10 years of Judaic Studies at Fairfield University… A lecture presented by The Carl and Dorothy Bennett Center for Judaic Studies Scholar-in-Residence 2003. [Dr. Reuven Firestone] Professor of Medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institute of Religion, Los Angeles. Author of Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Judaism for Muslims (2001) and Jihad: The Origin of Holy War in Islam (1999).https://digitalcommons.fairfield.edu/bennettcenter-posters/1226/thumbnail.jp
Pulsating catalytic combustion of gaseous fuels
No full textIssued as First quarterly report, Semi annual report, and Final report, Project no. E-16-618Final report has title: Pulsating catalytic combustion of gaseous fuelsFinal report has co-author: Reuven Gal-E
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