scholarly journals A carefully crafted work of rhetorical art

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (05) ◽  
pp. R02 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Stengler
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fantasy Theme Analysis ◽  
Original Series ◽  
Fantasy Theme ◽  
Rhetorical Vision ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Successful Design ◽  
Relationship Of

Shroeder Sorensen analyses in depth the close relationship of the TV-series Cosmos [1980] with the popular culture, in its broadest sense, at the time of its release. The novel application of Fantasy-Theme analysis to the rhetorical vision of the series reveals how it is the product of a very careful and successful design. The book also compares the original series with its 2014 reboot Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey [2014].

The Symbolist Contamination of Gor'kii's “Realistic” Style

Slavic Review ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-238
Author(s):  
Edward J. Brown
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of

I am concerned in this paper with investigating the complex relationship of Maksim Gor'kii with the literature of his day, including the so-called realists, but particularly with the decadents, the symbolists, and other writers generally thought of as alien to Russian realism, whether critical or socialist. The stereotype of Gor'kii still dominant in some quarters presents him as walled off from “decadent” and “bourgeois” literary styles and from the carriers of such “contamination.” But Gor'kii was much more complex and more interesting than we have supposed, and he functioned during much of his career as part of a literary world in which “symbolism,” rather loosely denned, was the dominant literary tendency. I would like to adduce evidence of the effect on his writing of symbolist and other modern influences and of his close relationship, at the same time, to the popular culture of the day.

scholarly journals A Fantasy Theme Analysis of Chinese Rhetorical Vision on Xinjiang Cotton Incident

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 50-54
Author(s):  
Yanan Wu
Keyword(s):  
International Organizations ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
Chinese People ◽  
Fantasy Theme Analysis ◽  
Fantasy Theme ◽  
Commercial Activities ◽  
Rhetorical Vision ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Rhetorical Visions ◽  
Fantasy Themes

At the end of March 2021, some international brands and international organizations boycotted Xinjiang cotton and related products in their commercial activities, which aroused great indignation among people from all walks of life in China, and people had come forward to stand up for Xinjiang as well as Xinjiang cotton. This paper lays emphasis on the response of Chinese people to the Xinjiang cotton incident and commits to analyze what and how the fantasy themes are able to achieve with regards to the creation of rhetorical visions within contexts of symbolic convergence theory.

Popular Music and the Modernist Dystopia: Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four

2021 ◽  
Vol 90 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-41
Author(s):  
Alex MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
New World ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Popular Songs ◽  
Post Modernism ◽  
Brave New World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This essay explores musical references in Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four, including music imagery and allusions to popular songs of the 1920s and 1940s. Huxley used the popular music of the Brave New World as an indicator of its emotional shallowness, represented by such immortal songs as “Hug Me Till You Drug Me, Honey.” Brave New World’s scorn for popular music, and for popular culture in general, situates Huxley’s famous dystopia as a high Modernist work. In Orwell’s case, implicit references to World War II hits such as “We’ll Meet Again” and “I’ll Be Seeing You” reflect ironically upon the relationship of Winston and Julia and their terrible situation at the end of the novel. His treatment of the musical thrush and the singing Prole laundrywoman plays a more hopeful note, and a positive attitude to popular songs and popular culture situates Nineteen Eighty-Four on the cusp of Post-Modernism. With respect to the critical discourse about hope and despair in these dystopian texts, the essay suggests that signs of hopefulness in Brave New World are very slight, although they do exist. The music of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and some other factors, lend support to the view that Orwell’s novel is not so despairing as it is sometimes made out to be.

scholarly journals The Relationship between Dominance and Resistance in the Novel High Fidelity

2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (22) ◽  
pp. 283-298
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Živanović ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Lower Class ◽  
Upper Class ◽  
High Fidelity ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Class Member ◽  
Moral Principles ◽  
Successful Business ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This paper provides an analysis of the relationship of dominance and resistance in the novel High Fidelity. The aim of the paper is to identify the elements of popular culture in the novel and thus determine the nature of possible relationships in a patriarchal, capitalist society. The theoretical framework used in the paper is Fiske’s theory of popular culture (2001) and the analysis is based on regarding the characters as representatives of dominant and resistant forces. Men and the upper class constitute categories which are dominant in the relationship with subordinate ones – women and the lower class. In addition, the protagonist Rob is the prototype of a man who is subordinate to himself, i.e. to his representation of ideal male traits he lacks, according to his own beliefs. The subordinate put up resistance in different ways. Laura is a successful business woman who possesses a strong character, which places her into a better position than that of Rob. The protagonist uses music as one of the ways to express his resistance. As a lower class member (i.e. a poor entrepreneur), the protagonist opposes upper class members (wealthy entrepreneurs) in that he possesses moral principles which they often lack.

scholarly journals Micromonospora pisi sp. nov., isolated from root nodules of Pisum sativum

2010 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lorena C. Garcia ◽  
Eustoquio Martínez-Molina ◽  
Martha E. Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Pisum Sativum ◽  
Gene Sequence ◽  
Root Nodules ◽  
Rrna Gene ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Biochemical Tests ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Physiological And Biochemical ◽  
The 16S Rrna Gene

A novel actinomycete, designated strain GUI 15T, isolated from the root nodules of a Pisum sativum plant was characterized taxonomically by using a polyphasic approach. The 16S rRNA gene sequence of strain GUI 15T showed highest similarity to Micromonospora pattaloongensis TJ2-2T (98.7 %) and Polymorphospora rubra TT 97-42T (98.5 %). Phylogenetic analysis based on the gyrase B gene also supported the close relationship of these three strains, but indicated that strain GUI 15T should be assigned to the genus Micromonospora. Chemotaxonomic results confirmed the position of the isolate in the genus Micromonospora, but revealed differences at the species level. The novel strain could be distinguished from recognized Micromonospora species by using a combination of physiological and biochemical tests. Based on these observations, strain GUI 15T is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Micromonospora, for which the name Micromonospora pisi sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is GUI 15T (=DSM 45175T=LMG 24546T).

scholarly journals Can Embeddings Adequately Represent Medical Terminology? New Large-Scale Medical Term Similarity Datasets Have the Answer!

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (05) ◽  
pp. 8775-8782
Author(s):  
Claudia Schulz ◽  
Damir Juric
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
Medical Terms ◽  
Aggregation Techniques ◽  
Medical Term ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Term Similarity ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Annotation Study

A large number of embeddings trained on medical data have emerged, but it remains unclear how well they represent medical terminology, in particular whether the close relationship of semantically similar medical terms is encoded in these embeddings. To date, only small datasets for testing medical term similarity are available, not allowing to draw conclusions about the generalisability of embeddings to the enormous amount of medical terms used by doctors. We present multiple automatically created large-scale medical term similarity datasets and confirm their high quality in an annotation study with doctors. We evaluate state-of-the-art word and contextual embeddings on our new datasets, comparing multiple vector similarity metrics and word vector aggregation techniques. Our results show that current embeddings are limited in their ability to adequately encode medical terms. The novel datasets thus form a challenging new benchmark for the development of medical embeddings able to accurately represent the whole medical terminology.

The Shop-Girl Revolutionary in Henry James's The Princess Casamassima

2008 ◽  
Vol 63 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Mullin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Social Change ◽  
The Sun ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Local Color ◽  
Literary Naturalism ◽  
Public House ◽  
Revolutionary Politics ◽  
Critical Attention ◽  
Marginal Characters

Abstract This essay argues that the complex political resonances of Henry James's The Princess Casamassima (1886) can be further elucidated through closer critical attention to one of its more marginal characters, the shop-girl Millicent Henning. Ebullient, assertive, and, for many early reviewers, the novel's sole redeeming feature, Millicent supplies the novel with far more than local color. Instead, James seizes on a sexual persona already well established within literary naturalism and popular culture alike to explore a rival mode of insurrection to that more obviously offered elsewhere. While the modes of revolution contemplated by Hyacinth Robinson and his comrades in the Sun and Moon public house are revealed to be anachronistic and ineffectual, Millicent's canny manipulation of her sexuality supplies her with an alternative, effective, and unmistakably modern mode of transformation. The novel's portrait of ““revolutionary politics of a hole-and-corner sort”” is thus set against Millicent's brand of quotidian yet inexorable social change.

The role and relationship of mindreading and social attunement in HRI – position statements of interdisciplinary researchers. Workshop HRI'20

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Wykowska ◽  
Jairo Pérez-Osorio ◽  
Stefan Kopp
Keyword(s):  
Mental States ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Human Interaction ◽  
Artificial Agents ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

This booklet is a collection of the position statements accepted for the HRI’20 conference workshop “Social Cognition for HRI: Exploring the relationship between mindreading and social attunement in human-robot interaction” (Wykowska, Perez-Osorio & Kopp, 2020). Unfortunately, due to the rapid unfolding of the novel coronavirus at the beginning of the present year, the conference and consequently our workshop, were canceled. On the light of these events, we decided to put together the positions statements accepted for the workshop. The contributions collected in these pages highlight the role of attribution of mental states to artificial agents in human-robot interaction, and precisely the quality and presence of social attunement mechanisms that are known to make human interaction smooth, efficient, and robust. These papers also accentuate the importance of the multidisciplinary approach to advance the understanding of the factors and the consequences of social interactions with artificial agents.

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