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, 1989 This paper examines the evidence for Aristotle's theory of comedy in the Poetics and other works. Since he defines comedy in terms of its 'inferior' characters, he cannot have objected in principle to ethical impropriety, obscenity and personal abuse in ...
Heath, M.
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Middlebrow Aesthetics: An Explanation and Defense
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We offer a philosophical account of the middlebrow as a theoretical category to do explanatory and critical work in aesthetics. On our account, the middlebrow ought to be understood as aspirational popular art. That is, it is art which aspires both to be popular (in a distinctive sense), and at the same time to be something more than popular ...
Aaron Meskin, Jonathan M. Weinberg
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KdV soliton interactions: a tropical view
, 2013 Via a "tropical limit" (Maslov dequantization), Korteweg-deVries (KdV) solitons correspond to piecewise linear graphs in two-dimensional space-time. We explore this limit.Comment: 10 pages, 4 figures, conference "Physics and Mathematics of Nonlinear ...
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Publics and Audiences in Ancient Greece [PDF]
, 2013 An overview of the historical constitution of theater audiences in Classical Athens and the implications of this assessment. I first sketch out the dominant ways in which modern scholars have defined ancient audiences.
David Roselli
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The Painterly Materiality of Clouds in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet
Renaissance Studies, EarlyView.Abstract This article examines the cloud‐gazing scenes in Antony and Cleopatra and Hamlet through the lens of early modern artistic theory and material practices, particularly the art of limning. Building upon existing philosophical and poetic interpretations of Shakespearean clouds as metaphors for ephemerality and memory, the essay argues that the ...
Anne‐Valérie Dulac
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The Southern Journal of Philosophy, EarlyView.Abstract This article reinterprets Levinas's account of ethical subjectivity by centering the temporality of the pas encore (“not yet”) and drawing on new materials in Œuvres complètes. I argue that, in Totality and Infinity, eros and ethics are internally continuous: eros generates a responsible not yet of time, secured by fecundity and oriented to ...
Huaiyuan Zhang
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From the Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equation halfway to Ward's chiral model
, 2008 The "pseudodual" of Ward's modified chiral model is a dispersionless limit of the matrix Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (KP) equation. This relation allows to carry solution techniques from KP over to the former model.
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Great Panathenaia in Greek drama
RUDN Journal of World History, 2018 The works of the Greek playwrights of the classical period are an interesting source on the history of the panatheniac festival. The tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes contain information about both the sacred ...
Tatiana Borisovna Gvozdeva
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, 1989 Playwright: Aristophanes Director: Richard D. Parks Set Design: James K. Culley Costumes: Jeffrey Struckman Academic Year: 1988-1989https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1980s/1050/thumbnail ...
San Jose State University, Theatre Arts
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New Directions for Teaching and Learning, Volume 2025, Issue 184, Page 49-51, Winter 2025.ABSTRACT This chapter simultaneously tells a story and examines the process of storytelling as it shares ideas about the decolonization of drama, theatre, and performance provoked by participating in a Disrupting interview process that included an individual interview and a land‐based medicine walk.
Kelsey Jacobson
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