Temporal Succession in Samson Agonistes

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 298-309
Author(s):  
Ayelet C. Langer
Keyword(s):  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
Temporal Succession

Samson on the Yard: Teaching Milton’s Samson Agonistes in an Arizona Prison

2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-183
Author(s):  
David Hawkes ◽  
Joe Lockard
Keyword(s):  
Samson Agonistes

Samson Agonistes 1665-6.

1906 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 78
Author(s):  
Albert S. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Samson Agonistes

scholarly journals Sonic and Parametrical Entities in Tetras: An Analytical Approach to the Music of Iannis Xenakis

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 72-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Harley
Keyword(s):  
String Quartet ◽  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Iannis Xenakis ◽  
Temporal Succession ◽  
Point Of Departure

From his earliest works, Xenakis has conceived his music in terms of textures and sound masses. The analytical approach introduced here for a study of the recent string quartet, Tetras, takes such sonic entities as its point of departure. The inside-time structure is described in terms of the temporal succession of these entities and the outside-time relationships established between them by means of a whole range of parametrical entities. While the sonic and parametrical entities need to be specified for each piece, it is shown that this approach can be profitably applied to the complete Xenakis oeuvre.

LITHOBIOTOPES OF THE NEMEGT GOBI BASIN

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Jerzykiewicz ◽  
Philip J. Currie ◽  
Federico Fanti ◽  
Jerzy Lefeld
Keyword(s):  
Upper Cretaceous ◽  
Alluvial Plain ◽  
Gobi Desert ◽  
Large Species ◽  
Physical Processes ◽  
Desert Region ◽  
Ephemeral Channels ◽  
Temporal Succession ◽  
Asymmetric Distributions ◽  
Rich Fauna

Three distinct but overlapping dinosaur-dominated faunas characterize the Upper Cretaceous Djadokhta, Baruungoyot and Nemegt formations of the Nemegt Basin of Mongolia. Documented faunal differences cannot be explained easily by temporal succession, but can be understood in the light of physical processes controlling life, death, and burial of taxa. The stratigraphy of the Gobi Desert region records tectonically driven geometries, clearly documenting preservational processes different than those acting in most other dinosaur-dominated beds worldwide. Small, asymmetric tectonic grabens were filled with Upper Cretaceous, dinosaur bearing deposits showing asymmetric distributions of facies, here termed Lithobiotopes. The water-lain fluvial and alluvial plain facies of the Nemegt Lithobiotope supported and preserved a fauna dominated by gigantic dinosaurs, but had a preservational bias against smaller animals. The Nemegt passed laterally into interdune facies of the Baruungoyot Lithobiotope, which represented a hostile environment for large species, but preserved smaller animals. This in turn passed laterally into the aeolianite facies of the Djadokhta Lithobiotope, which is characterized by remains of small dinosaurs and a rich fauna of other animals. The Nemegt Gobi Basin can be visualized as an oasis with a central pond supplied with water from ephemeral channels and surrounded by a semi-arid alluvial plain and dune fields.

scholarly journals The hydraulic management of the Barra Bonita reservoir (SP, Brazil) as a factor influencing the temporal succession of its fish community

2007 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 433-445 ◽  
Author(s):  
ML. Petesse ◽  
M. Petrere Jr. ◽  
RJ. Spigolon
Keyword(s):  
Fish Species ◽  
Fish Community ◽  
Abundant Species ◽  
Anthropogenic Stress ◽  
Reservoir Level ◽  
Species List ◽  
Adaptation Capacity ◽  
Reproductive Structures ◽  
Temporal Succession ◽  
Reproductive Compensation

The temporal succession of fish communities allows evaluating the environmental conditions and the adaptation capacity of the fish species to anthropogenic stress in reservoirs. The fish community at Barra Bonita reservoir was sampled in two different periods of the year (dry and rainy) and in three different areas of the reservoir (fluvial, transition, and lentic). The species list was compared to another four lists, trying to detect the transformations of the fish community for the last 15 years. In order to evaluate the adaptation of the present fish community to the hydraulic management of reservoir, the trophic and reproductive structures were studied. Temporal succession analysis shows little change in fish richness of the communities. The number of fish species varies between 23 and 39 for a total of 68 registered species. From this, 27 can be considered constant, 14 accessory and 27 accidental; the main differences observed were for Anostomidae, Loricariidae and Characidae families. In relation to the hydraulic management, we found a fish community stabilized and adapted to environmental stress. This is characterized by the dominance of small-sized fish species of opportunistic diet and high reproductive compensation (r-strategists). The overlap of biological cycles of the most abundant species with the reservoir level fluctuations points to the period from September to March-April as critical for reproductive success and only the species with partial reproductive strategy or parental care are best succeeded. These results, interpreted in the context of the reservoir aging process, indicate that Barra Bonita reservoir is entering a transition phase, between the colonization and aging stages.

Aristotle's Approach to Poetry

1981 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-39
Author(s):  
B. R. Rees
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Major Part ◽  
Structural Pattern ◽  
Classical Text ◽  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
Tom Jones ◽  
Artistic Representation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Western European ◽  
First Time

These are the opening words of Aristotle's Poetics, generally recognized as the most influential work in the history of Western European drama and poetic theory since the Renaissance. The initial statement of the scope of the inquiry is a formidable one; but a reader coming to it for the first time might well be forgiven for concluding that it promises far more than it achieves. Is it possible, he might ask, that all this is contained in a slim volume occupying no more than 47 pages in the Oxford Classical Text and 45 in the Penguin translation? Reading further, he might become even more disillusioned: what he discovers is that, after a very brief and perfunctory introduction on poetry as a form of mimesis or artistic representation, Aristotle limits himself to a discussion of tragedy, a cursory treatment of epic, and a few passing references to comedy, and that, even in the case of tragedy, by far the major part of the argument is devoted to an examination of plot. Can this really be the work which excited scholars in the Renaissance, inspired Milton to write Samson Agonistes, an Aristotelian drama if there ever was one, provided the structural pattern and dramatic conventions for the plays of Racine and Corneille, gave Fielding the principles on which he based his Tom Jones, influenced Goethe and Lessing and, through Lessing, Coleridge, and has won the attention and admiration of critics writing in English from James Harris at the end of the eighteenth century to Richard MacKeon in the second half of the twentieth? And, if so, why?

Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson Agonistes

2004 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 325-326
Author(s):  
N. McDowell
Keyword(s):  
Samson Agonistes

Samson Agonistes and the “Tragedy” of the Apocalypse

PMLA ◽  
1970 ◽  
Vol 85 (5) ◽  
pp. 1050-1062 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara K. Lewalski
Keyword(s):  
Book Of Revelation ◽  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
End Of History ◽  
God's People ◽  
The World ◽  
The End Of History ◽  
New Perspective ◽  
Wrath Of God ◽  
Church Government

Milton's references in the preface to Samson Agonistes and in The Reason of Church Government to the Book of Revelation as tragedy have great significance for his drama. His cited authority, David Pareus, and several other Protestant commentators identified the Book of Revelation as tragedy on the basis of form (the alternation of dramatic episodes and Choruses) and subject—the spiritual combat of the Elect with Antichrist and their torment and suffering at his hands throughout all time, reversed only at the end of history when they share Christ's Apocalyptic victory over him. Protestant exegates often linked the Samson story typologically with the Book of Revelation, presenting Samson as type of the suffering Elect and the exercise of Samson's vocation as Judge (deliverer of God's people and executor of the wrath of God upon His enemies) as type of the Elect judging the world with Christ at the last day. This context assists the interpretation of Milton's Samson, bringing into focus its treatment of Samson's judgeship. The Samson Apocalypse link also brings a new perspective to certain moot questions: the date of the play, the interpretation of Samson's character, the presence of contemporary political reference, the nature of the drama's tragic effect.

scholarly journals The Neo-Christian Bias and Its Discontents: Milton Studies and the Case of Samson Agonistes

2001 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 157-170
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Sauer
Keyword(s):  
Samson Agonistes ◽  
Il Y A

Les études miltoniennes ont été dominées par ce que John Rumrich qualifie de «Milton inventé», personnage caractérisé par son didactisme et son orthodoxie d’après le «préjugé néo-chrétien» de la critique. Rumrich emprunte cette dernière expression à William Empson, qui, il y a des décennies, mit en cause la tendance à imposer sur Milton la cohérence et l’orthodoxie religieuse. Dans cette exercice d’analyse, l’auteur examine l’engagement de Milton avec l’hétérodoxie et l’hérésie dans Samson Agonistes, poème dont la réception a été déterminée par les «piétés régénératrices» des spécialistes ayant pris un parti conservateur.

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