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Becoming Dostoevsky (how Rowan Williams opens up Bakhtin)

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract With the end of Communism in Russia, non‐materialist contexts were enthusiastically restored to Mikhail Bakhtin's globally famous ideas of carnival, dialogism, and polyphony. This essay surveys Rowan Williams's 2008 study Dostoevsky: Language, Faith + Fiction as a major contribution to this effort, concentrating on those general philosophical ...
Caryl Emerson
wiley   +1 more source

Case studies on absolute pitch

Archives of Acoustics, 2014
Absolute pitch (AP) seems to be one of the most remarkable phenomena of the longterm auditory memory. AP possessors can identify or also produce musical pitches (e.g. C, C#, D, etc.) without using any external reference tone.
Sylwia Makomaska
doaj  

The Diremption of Meaning

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Examining work by Rowan Williams, this essay explores what he often refers to as the ‘difficulty’ of writing theology. The difficulty of theology lies in engaging the ruse of having ultimate answers to ultimate questions. The stakes are high: ‘God‐talk’ must concern itself with truth, with reality.
Graham Ward
wiley   +1 more source

The role of musical pitch in long-distance defensive signaling. [PDF]

Ann N Y Acad Sci
Podlipniak P.
europepmc   +1 more source

Fantasies of the Dialectical Imagination: a Response to James Davis

Music Analysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article responds to the various criticisms raised against my work on the nature and function of music analysis by James Davis in his article ‘Against the New Musical Idealism: Or, Listening for What May Be Otherwise’, Music Analysis, 45/i (2026).
Julian Horton
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple timescales of context influence perceptual sensitivity to common pairings of musical pitch and timbre. [PDF]

PLoS One
Stilp CE, Adames I, Shorey AE.
europepmc   +1 more source

Navigating troubled waters: Posthumanist vulnerability and entanglement in Richard Powers's Playground (2024)

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Richard Powers's most recent novels to date—The Overstory (2018), Bewilderment (2021), and Playground (2024)—engage with some of the environmental and technological threats that loom over our planet, such as deforestation, species loss, the degradation of the ocean bottom, and the risks associated with the development of generative AI ...
Carmen Laguarta‐Bueno
wiley   +1 more source

Trauma and affect in a Holocaust survivor's story: Rosita Fanto's novel Rozalia Alone

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract My article endeavors to redress the neglect of Rosita Fanto's Rozalia Alone (2010), which deals with a page of history that is less known worldwide, the Holocaust in Romania. Using a trauma studies perspective that mixes with affect theory, the article demonstrates that Rozalia Alone covers in a nutshell the whole magnitude of the late 1930s ...
Arleen Ionescu
wiley   +1 more source

Decoding the dynamic representation of musical pitch from human brain activity. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2018
Sankaran N, Thompson WF, Carlile S, Carlson TA.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

The Concept of Categoricity

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
wiley   +1 more source