Acta Academica is an accredited, open access South African journal dedicated to scholarship in the humanities. The publishes independently refereed research articles It promotes perspectives of critical social theory and engagements with postcolonial post-developmental debates special references (Southern) Africa. thereby support scholarly work that examines how humanities twenty-first century ...

This study aims to illuminate the features of relationship narrator character in story group, with narrative that contributes its presentation through story, and impact on consistency it. The Libyan "Hussein Nassib Al-Maliki", who tried "polyphony" technique, as he was able, over course an extended experience, dedicate his own voice, And pass images condemnation behaviors social phenomena are s...

Finding multiple occurrences of themes and patterns in music can be hampered due to polyphonic textures. This is caused by the complexity of music that weaves multiple independent lines of music together. We present and demonstrate a system, VoiSe, that is capable of isolating individual voices in both explicit and implicit polyphonic music. VoiSe is designed to work on a symbolic representatio...

“The Master and Margarita” is generally considered Mikhail Bulgakov’s literary masterpiece. It a “melting pot” of genres, motives, themes, imagery intertextual references. All these elements cooperate in creating “polyphonic” novel, Bakhtin’s sense the word, not only when it comes to different nature “voice” single characters but also with reference “poly-structured” construction text itself. T...

Many cities in the Global South are structurally different from Northern, particularly American, on which much of urban sociology’s conceptual apparatus has been based. Thus, depicting them terms a standard vocabulary risks imposing an inappropriate way seeing. We need that is able to accommodate their experience. This special issue contributes work building vocabulary. select five keywords soc...

In this paper, we present an interactive approach for the classification of sound objects in electro-acoustic music. For this purpose, we use relevance feedback combined with active-learning segment selection in an interactive loop. Validation and correction information given by the user is injected in the learning process at each iteration to achieve more accurate classification. Three active ...

the present study sets out to investigate the narrator’s textual position in grass’s the tin drum. although authorial self-dramatization through affinities with one or more characters in the work is undeniable, this study mainly concentrates on the inner interpenetrations of heteroglot utterances as uttered by an unreliable first-person narrator, oskar matzerath, in the light of the bakhtinian ...

mowlavi`s mathnavi is such a mysterious and boundless sea that it is full of pure conceptions. it has been composed to emanate the desired life for creation of an ideal human. it is boundless, because it is full of pure gnostic, philosophical and kalami arguments, as well as social conceptions. it is mysterious, because from every perspective it shows off a unique aspect. being mysterious is no...