CONCEPTIONS OF THE POETIC IN CLASSICAL GREEK PROSE Alison C. Traweek Dr. Sheila Murnaghan This dissertation explores how prose authors of the Classical period envisioned literary distinctions, particularly how and when they labeled a particular utterance ‘poetic’. The first chapter addresses fifth-century prose authors whose work survives in significant degree (Herodotus, Thucydides), or whose ...

An amount of research has risen growing concern of designing aesthetics of interaction in addition to function, usability, and pleasure of it. Beyond aesthetic interaction, we propose poetic interaction as a promising design genre. Based on Bachelard’s phenomenological approach, we suggest that poetic interaction design begin with imagination and expression-making of both material and computati...

Theorists often associate certain “poetic” qualities with metaphor – most especially, producing an open-ended, holistic perspective which is evocative, imagistic and affectively-laden. I argue that, on the one hand, non-cognitivists are wrong to claim that metaphors only produce such perspectives: like ordinary literal speech, they also serve to undertake claims and other speech acts with propo...

the present paper is a research into the process of translating literary types. to make this feasible, first, six, presuppositions widely accepted by translation scholars are discussed, together with the techniquets) of achieving adequate translation equivalent in translating automatic language. then, with regard to the poetic function of language, as suggested by jakobson, 'foregrounding&...

What does it mean to write when you inhabit the fraught borderline between Hebrew and Arabic? Well, it depends on whom you ask. In a Hebrew poem insisting that strangers can be friends, the Palestinian Israeli poet Salman Masalha infuses the statement “Ani kotev ‘ivrit,” “I write Hebrew,” with myriad shades of wonder and possibility.3 In an opposing poetic maneuver, Sami Shalom Chetrit, a Moroc...

Disturbances of association are suggested to be fundamental characteristics in schizophrenia (Bleuler, 1950). Schizophrenics may have pathological semantic systems that are less socially conditioned. In fact, schizophrenics often fail to understand the meaning of words in context and cannot communicate their intended meaning to others (Cutting, 1985). Language impairments may also precipitate t...