Lyric Self-Fashioning: Sonnet 35 as Formal Model

Lyric Poetry as Society

Formal logics as model

We describe the main features of an in-service teacher training proposal aimed at helping the teachers to use logic as a means of encouraging students to develop valuable models of thinking, taking into account the evolution of common sense reasoning and the reasoning capabilities required by the complexity of global rationality. Referring to the situation in Italian schools, we firstly discuss...

Fashion and Self-Fashioning: Clothing Regulation in Renaissance Europe

Introduction In 1378 a ten-year-old girl named Nicolosa was fined fourteen lire for wearing a fine silk gown with tassels on the streets of Florence. In 1398 a prostitute of the same city was prosecuted for failing to wear high-heeled slippers and a bell on her head. All across Italy officials were sent to weddings, funerals and general social gatherings to ensure that the participants were wea...

Combinatorics of the Sonnet

Using a definition of a sonnet, the number of basic rhyming schemes is enumerated. This is then used to discuss the 86 sonnets which appear in John Clare’s The Rural Muse.

Discourse Analysis of Lyric and Lyric-Based Classification of Music

Lyrics play an important role in the semantics and the structure of many pieces of music. However, while many existing lyric analysis systems consider each sentence of a given set of lyrics separately, lyrics are more naturally understood as multi-sentence units, where the relations between sentences is a key factor. Here we describe a series of experiments using discourse-based features, which...