An attempt at comparing the aesthetic philosophy of Abhinavagupta with the stray speculations of Eliot on art experiences may sound a little strange to western critics. Nonetheless, the similarity is too striking to ignore, and we feel that it is not merely incidental. The feeling is amply buttressed by a string of evidence showing the penetrating influence of Indian tradition on Eliot. Unfortu...

In this paper a new approach towards the analysis of speech rhythm is presented. In the speech rhythm literature it was often discussed that rhythmic phenomena are more transparent in the metrical structure of orally produced poetry. However, up to now only a few phoneticians have worked on this special speaking style. For analyzing the rhythmic and prosodic patterns of this kind of speech, a c...

Numinosity refers to the spiritual power in the relationship between the individual and other people and things. The numinosity of water is discussed in the context of culture and religions. Science without consideration of numinosity can be dehumanizing. Often considered supernatural, other synonyms of numinosity include transcendent, ineffable and marvelous, not necessarily including religiou...

This poster presentation is the culmination of an extensive statistical study of Latin elegy. The notion that poetic sound represents a distinct layer of information where discrete patterns can be found is an intriguing one. In a theoretical context, sound captures a "metalanguage" that is universal to all discourse, but only exposed in poetry. This poster develops a model for metalanguage and ...

This paper describes an unsupervised, language-independent model for finding rhyme schemes in poetry, using no prior knowledge about rhyme or pronunciation.

social changes and considering people’s needs are seen as the most important issues in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the writers of this article have considered the views of western and iranian critics to study the function of the addressee in the changes of persian poetry in constitutional era. the use of such a study is that the writers have found and analyzed many soci...

i was using had a chatty, helpful compiler that told me where the bug was and what was wrong—sort of. the trouble was that even when i printed the code and stared at the recalcitrant line, the bug remained hidden. in the end, i finally saw my error: i’d spelled “goto” with two zeros instead of two os. the characters are next to each other on the keyboard, and when printed, they looked almost id...

ROM HARRE, Great scientific experiments, Oxford, Phaidon Press, 1981, 8vo, pp. 224, illus., £8.95. In little more than 200 pages Dr. Harre manages to describe the reasoning behind twenty experiments, the apparatus involved, and the results. They cover a wide range of sciences distributed between Aristotle's biology and quantum mechanics. The amount of information included is remarkable. For exa...

Texts are composed of many different strata on different levels. A method is proposed to find the number of strata at the word-form level in Slovak poetry and to study the relationship between the parameters of the fitting function.