From Chloroform to Thalia and Erato, Liebig's Muses of Comedy and Love Poetry.

From Chloroform to Polyhymnia and Euterpe, Liebig's Muses of Hymns and Music.

456 doi: 10.1097/ALN.0000000000001287 The art mousike (Greek for “pertaining to the Muses”) naturally embraced music itself, and “well-pleasing” Euterpe (right) was the Muse of Music. On this Italian card advertising a company cofounded by chloroform pioneer Justus von Liebig (1803 to 1873), Euterpe is depicted playing the double-reeded, double-piped aulos. Veiled next to her stands Polyhymnia ...

قلمرو و ماهیت شعر از دیدگاه عرفانی عطار

The literature of text, especially poetry and its nature is a subject that ‘Attār, like some other mystics, pays attention of very much. Although he does not give a logical definition and description of it, ‘Attār explains and reflect on it in his works repeatedly according to his mystical views. Because of his mystical attitude, he looks at poetry and story from the perspective of content and ...

The Muses of Poetry - In search of the poetic experience

This paper presents the current advances in “The Muses of Poetry”, an on-going project that combines interaction, emotions and poetry. The goal of the project is to create an interactive installation where a virtual character not only recites poetry, but also manifests the affective content of the poem through facial expressions and voice rhythm. The novelty of our work is the combination of di...

From Chloroform to Melpomene, Liebig's Muse of Tragedy.

Paradox in the Poetry of Hazin-e Lahiji

Paradox is one of the literary techniques in the poetry of the Safavid poets. Hazin-e Lahiji, like so many other poets of that age, employed this technique in his pursuit and showed that "unfamiliar meaning". Paradox is used in the poetry of Hazin-e Lahiji for the purpose of defamiliarization and exoticism. The poet in order to create new implications and subtle and insightful points and also t...