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Migrarâe
\"Migrarâe begins with the foreign, the Other. a title in a \"foreign language,\" language we used to call any language we did not speak. Today we might call that language a modern language not a foreign one. I wanted to confront the reader with the idea of \"to move into\" as the poems are entered into, and to thereby suggest the literal meaning of the word migrarâe in Italian, derived from Latin. I wanted to explore how divisive and fearsome the unknown is, to explore what it might mean to have to create a new identity for ourselves as we continually \"move into\" new spheres of being, to explore how decentering it might be to have to redraw maps, to move boundaries, to redefine home. I wanted the poems to suggest that the complexities of transformation affect not only what is moved into but also who is moving, the agency of moving and what is moved from. I wanted to begin with something as seemingly simple as rudimentary quantum physics and transfer the knowledge derived from that base study to nationalism, identity, individualism and community. Each of the poems is ekphrastic, each poem a meditation and a keying to an abstract expressionistic painting by Bill Gingles. Ekphrasis more often than not relies on realistic or imagistic art as the springboard for the poem that emerges from it. I wanted the erasure or near erasure of the usual and the expected to be at work in the creation of these meditative poems. I wanted the reader to feel the distance between the visuals of the painting and the nonlinear narratives created inside the poems\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Discusiones en torno a una imagen misionera. Nuestra Señora de la Luz y el Cuarto Concilio Provincial Mexicano
En 1771, durante el Cuarto Concilio Provincial Mexicano, la advocación de María Madre Santísima de la Luz fue el centro de una acalorada discusión. Tanto las prácticas devocionales, como la amplia difusión de aquella imagen, además de los tratados sobre el culto y los argumentos de los asistentes al Concilio, revelaron una compleja situación que excedía el ámbito de lo estrictamente religioso. Si bien la discusión se centró en el poder de las imágenes para “enseñar la verdad” y para poner como “vivo lo cierto”, el control de la ortodoxia doctrinal y la práctica devocional se dirigió hacia la regulación de la respuesta del fiel frente a la imagen. Así, las proposiciones de defensores y detractores permiten observar la profunda interacción entre la teoría del arte y la teoría de la imagen religiosa.
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Ekphrastic medieval visions : a new discussion in interarts theory
\"Ekphrastic Medieval Visions explores the transformative power of ekphrasis in high and late medieval dream visions and mystical visions, ending with considerations of contemporary poetry to illustrate how medieval ekphrasis can illuminate current studies in poetics. Barbetti demonstrates that medieval ekphrases reveal ekphrasis as a process rather than a genre and shows how it works with cultural memory to transform, shift, and revise composition\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Bel(E)Us Brothers: Egypt as a Site of Civil Strife in Statius’s Thebaid 6
My article is divided into three sections. The first surveys the extant literary evidence for the details of the story of Danaus and Aegyptus. I then examine its importance for Statius’s narrative and unearth the outline of Egypt as a mythical landscape via the significant patronymic Statius uses (Belides) in the parade of ancestors—to be read in close connection with the foundational stories of Argos. In the third section, finally, I consider Aegyptus’s portrayal in the hope of amending scholarly views of his presumed innocence by offering a link to Silvae 1.1 and Domitian’s countenance on his equestrian statue in the Forum as seen through Statius’s eyes. In sum, this article reflects on Statius’s renewal of the overdetermined Labdacid mythic tradition, with the grounding of its Egyptian background. This article also contributes to historicising trends in the study of the Thebaid, as well as probing the diegetic role of ekphrasis in the poem and the ekphrasis’ possible, distilled reverberations in the cultural milieu of Domitianic Rome.
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Visual Metaphor and Narrative: Ekphrasis in Fictional Narrative Prose of Late Antiquity
This article presents an interpretation of some functions performed by ekphrastic structures in the context of Ancient fictional narrative prose. Concrete examples are taken from two Ancient Greek novels:
by Longus and
by Achilles Tatius. Using Olga Freidenberg’s conceptual and interpretative apparatus as a lens for reading the textual material, the central claim of the article is that within Ancient prose narrative, ekphrasis and metaphor are functionally interrelated, with ekphrasis serving to metaphorically embed narrative content within the mythological, affective, and genre-related fields of the textual production of meaning. At the same time, while adopting Freidenberg’s definition of metaphor as a primal state of cognitive indistinction between image and concept, the article attempts to go beyond her mythological interpretation of the Ancient novel and to provide a more socially and historically relevant understanding of the semantic features of this genre.
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De jirafas y hombres: un espectáculo de cuerpos híbridos en Etiópicas de Heliodoro
Este artículo examina la descripción de una jirafa realizada por Heliodoro en Etiópicas 10.27. En primer lugar, se contextualiza esta descripción dentro de los escritos antiguos, tardoantiguos y bizantinos sobre jirafas, y se pone de manifiesto el uso y la manipulación que lleva a cabo Heliodoro de las fuentes historiográficas y científicas. De esto surge la manera en que juega con el realismo histórico, así como la conexión entre los cuerpos maravillosos de la jirafa y Cariclea. Por otra parte, se analiza la aparentemente caótica narración resultante de las proezas atléticas de Teágenes (10.28-32) como un espectáculo coherente que continúa el iniciado por Cariclea y la jirafa. A ojos de los espectadores, el cuerpo de Teágenes se vuelve tan increíble como el de Cariclea.
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Mediated Sound—Between Visual Art and Music: Three Case Study: Zbigniew Bargielski, Zygmunt Krauze, Bettina Skrzypczak
The article focuses on demonstrating the connections between works of visual art and their musical representation—in the sense of a musical response to a work that served as a source of inspiration. The discussion focuses on works by outstanding composers: Zbigniew Bargielski (born 1937), Zygmunt Krauze (born 1938), and a younger composer, Bettina Skrzypczak (born 1961). Among the distinguished artists are also the authors of works of visual art that provided the “causative impulse” for musical compositions: Władysław Strzemiński (1893–1952), Tadeusz Mysłowski (born 1943), Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966). Their works, taken into account by the composers, belong to various genres of visual arts: Strzemiński’s unistic painting fascinated Z. Krauze (including Unistic Compositions for solo piano), Mysłowski’s multimedia objects inspired the musical imagination of Z. Bargielski (Shrine for Anonymous Victim, Light Cross, Towards Organic Geometry), while Giacometti’s sculptures prompted B. Skrzypczak to interpret them musically (Vier Figuren). The methodological basis for developing the topic was the concept of ekphrasis, introduced into the field of musical semiotics (as musical ekphrasis) by the German musicologist Siglind Bruhn, as well as the work by Jacek Szerszenowicz, Artistic Inspirations in Music (2008), whose author, in the Polish context, undertook research on capturing the nature of the relationship between the extra-musical source of inspiration (artistic works) and music.
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