Is classical tragedy contingent upon a Greco-Roman sense of morality? Or can tragedy exist within a Judeo-Christian universe as well? Literary critic Northrop Frye’s theory of high-mimetic tragedy inherits distinctions that Aristotle draws between tragedy and comedy in the Poetics. As a brief philological excursion will demonstrate, the binary distinctions upon which Aristotle builds his tragic...

Comedy during the apartheid era was an integral medium for indoctrination and pacification. It also a key instrument through which regime contested, and, in later years leading up to democracy, means of promoting nation-building cultural reconciliation rhetoric. This notwithstanding, its history this period remains poorly researched documented both academia, specifically, more broadly entertain...

“Non vide mei di me chi il vero”: L’art “verace” in the circle of proud as a mise en abyme Dante’s art Comedy The purpose this study is to discuss problem meta-poetic themes Divine Comedy, focusing particular on relationship between God’s and context impression caused by sight rock reliefs cornice Purgatorio, where poet, presenting imitating God, fact shows mastery his own art. analysis leads c...

WASHINGTON President Reagan contributed to a m as­ sive deception of Congress and the public in the Iran-Contra af­ fair and bears responsibility for thw arting the law by allow­ ing zealots to seize policy con­ trol, congressional inves­ tigators concluded Wednesday. “ These committees found no direct evidence suggesting that the president was a knowing participant in the effort to deceive Con...

We propose augmenting collaborative reviewing systems with an automatic annotation capability that helps users interpret reviews. Given an item and its review by a certain author, our approach is to find a reference set of similar items that is both easy to describe and meaningful to users. Depending on the number of available same-author reviews of items in the reference set, an annotation pro...