The article develops a view of neural networks as a tool for formulating and verifying philological hypotheses related to various aspects of the generation and reception of a literary text. The ...principles of aesthetic communication are analyzed, in which, thanks to the development of the modern technological environment, an anthropic author, a neural network and a recipient can participate equally. Neuropoetry is interpreted through the metaphor of a “battle of poetic languages” (in accordance with the conventions of the rap battle genre) — as a communicative field in which anthropic and digital authors interact as equal participants in the creative act, jointly forming new prerequisites for the reader’s perception of a literary text. The ‘co-creation’ of anthropic and digital authors is considered in terms of the actor-network theory of Latour. In interactions between a person and a neural network, the latter transcends its purely instrumental function and assumes features of subjectivity. It becomes an equal agent in generating a collective aesthetic statement. Neuropoetry, as a result of co-creation of this kind, is characterized by a double semiotic nature: one part of it is the result of the creation of an anthropic author, while the second demonstrates ‘secondary poetry’, in which the digital author imitates the procedures of natural speech generation. As a result, a new, complicated model of aesthetic communication is formed, complementing the standard positions of the communicative act (author — text — reader) with the level of communicative interaction of anthropic and digital co-authors. The recipient, in the situation of perceiving a text co-written by a person and a neural network, is involved in a complex interpretative game that activates the mechanisms of aesthetic reception, and the act of ‘neuro-creativity’ itself creates new forms of mimesis, which ceases to be ‘imitation of the world’ and becomes ‘imitation of imitation’.
The Neoplatonic thought on the illusory nature of earthly goods and on the soul’s enslavement to the passions pervades the incisive images of Boethius’ Orpheus poem, especially through an accurate ...use of lexicon.
El pensamiento de Martin Heidegger experimenta un repentino cambio en su forma de expresión ante la pregunta por el sentido del Ser, o Seinsfrage, a partir de la década de los treinta del siglo XX. ...No obstante, este cambio no representa una ruptura en el continuum del proyecto heideggeriano, sino una precisión en su aproximación filosófica al Ser. En este artículo analizaré de qué manera la recepción e interpretación de la poesía de Friedrich Hölderlin influye en la forja de la compleja propuesta del Ereignis en el segundo Heidegger. El objetivo de esta reflexión es entender cómo gracias al viraje, o Kehre, hacia el segundo Heidegger se funda un nuevo horizonte para la reflexión al margen de la tradición metafísica occidental y del corsé de un método con pretensiones cientificistas. En este horizonte, el lenguaje poético recobraría la legitimidad del diálogo y la pregunta como vehículos para el pensamiento.
The article is devoted to the poetics of contemporary American writer Lyn Hejinian (1941–2024), considered one of the most consistent successors of Gertrude Stein's experimentalism in Anglophone ...literary writing. The study encompasses all stages of Hejinian’s poetic creativity: from early experiences of “language writing” in the 1960–70s, autobiographical texts and collective works of the 1980–90s, to theoretical and poetic quests in the first decades of the 21st century. The writer's main interest is the persistence and impermanence of memory and the subject, as well as the role of writing in their preservation and transformation. Descriptions of the writing process as a driving force of memory and experience come to the fore here. Syntax acts as the materialization of temporality in writing. Texts in a variety of formats explore natural and cultural worlds brought to life by language. Many of Hejinian's texts, both theoretical and artistic, explore the problem of language as a social space, as a philosophical search and as political pragmatics, as well as the problem of the relationship of time to language and language to time. The book The Language of Inquiry has become a kind of manifesto for poetic language, which is the “language of inquiry.” A special place in the book is occupied by essays about Gertrude Stein, which actualize the writing practices of the great American modernist in the contemporary context of language-oriented poetics. In her work of the recent years, Hejinian increasingly turns to social themes, never ceasing to experiment with the boundaries of the poetic. She puts forward a theory of so-called “allegorical activism,” which is understood as “artistic and political practice in the service of activating creative potential in everyday life.”
This article addresses the problems associated with language in the therapeutic setting that is stale, overly rigid, or too reliant on jargon, and therefore inhibits the full and open exploration of ...clients. Instead, the author suggests that psychotherapy learn from and borrow from the field of poetry. Specifically, the use of poetic language-defined as language that is rooted in images, pictures, and metaphors and that is spontaneous, associative, and informal-can improve therapists' tracking of the somatic-emotional-mental experiences of clients and create a rich and textured holding environment that is better fit for the transformational process. The article explores observations and statements by both poets and psychotherapists, examines the overlap and parallels between them, and describes a means for using poetic language to revitalize therapeutic language and the process of therapy.
Poetic diction routinely involves two complementary classes of features: (i) parallelisms, i.e. repetitive patterns (rhyme, metre, alliteration, etc.) that enhance the predictability of upcoming ...words, and (ii) poetic deviations that challenge standard expectations/predictions regarding regular word form and order. The present study investigated how these two prediction-modulating fundamentals of poetic diction affect the cognitive processing and aesthetic evaluation of poems, humoristic couplets and proverbs. We developed quantitative measures of these two groups of text features. Across the three text genres, higher deviation scores reduced both comprehensibility and aesthetic liking whereas higher parallelism scores enhanced these. The positive effects of parallelism are significantly stronger than the concurrent negative effects of the features of deviation. These results are in accord with the hypothesis that art reception involves an interplay of prediction errors and prediction error minimization, with the latter paving the way for processing fluency and aesthetic liking. This article is part of the theme issue 'Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives'.
Hermeneutic phenomenology provides a framework to understand shared, interrelated, and embodied human existence since it is concerned with meaning-making and revealing what the experience is like. ...Metaphors, part of poetic language, offer an effective method for presenting complex, rich understandings, giving room for play and ambiguity, and uncovering novel and unexpected ways of conceptualizing experiences. Drawing on a broader case study on the collaboration between the Children’s Parliament Scotland and an Aberdeen primary school, this article presents how metaphor was used to gather material on the “meanings of children's participation in decision-making processes”. This choice was guided by the epistemological conviction that image-related representations can be significant sources of knowledge about the human world, revealing new meanings that can illuminate both theory and practice.
Poetry and prose, like all other arts, need to use tools to communicate with the audience; irony is one of these tools. Early rhetorical scholars have addressed the significance of irony and its ...impact on the expression of meaning as well as the indirect transfer of the message. The present study is an attempt to analyze irony and its variants in classical Kurdish poetry in a new way, and to study the reasons behind its emergence in the literary world, while focusing on its aesthetic functions. Irony is a word, phrase, or sentence which is used to express meaning indirectly. The meaning may not be so influential if expressed in an ordinary language. Irony artistically expresses the meaning and is rooted in the science of rhetoric. The results of this study indicate that the origin of irony is the common speaking of people and it is used in specific times and places to convey the message and to inform the addressee with different goals. Irony reflects the intellectual level of society. It has a particular significance for all of the speakers of a mother tongue. It is rooted in society and its survival or decline depends on the decision of the people in a society. Irony has an intrinsic impact on speakers of a language; it is sometimes encouraging and alleviating the personal pains at other times. The main purpose of irony is to magnify the meaning. Adopting a descriptive-analytical method, the present study aims to answer the following questions: What is the main reason behind using irony in literature? Why does the writer or speaker express the meaning indirectly?
It is a common experience-and well established experimentally-that music can engage us emotionally in a compelling manner. The mechanisms underlying these experiences are receiving increasing ...scrutiny. However, the extent to which other domains of aesthetic experience can similarly elicit strong emotions is unknown. Using psychophysiology, neuroimaging and behavioral responses, we show that recited poetry can act as a powerful stimulus for eliciting peak emotional responses, including chills and objectively measurable goosebumps that engage the primary reward circuitry. Importantly, while these responses to poetry are largely analogous to those found for music, their neural underpinnings show important differences, specifically with regard to the crucial role of the nucleus accumbens. We also go beyond replicating previous music-related studies by showing that peak aesthetic pleasure can co-occur with physiological markers of negative affect. Finally, the distribution of chills across the trajectory of poems provides insight into compositional principles of poetry.
Linguistics and Semiotics Kawamoto, Shigeo
GENGO KENKYU (Journal of the Linguistic Society of Japan),
2023, Letnik:
Supplement.3
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Odprti dostop
Drawing from notions starting from Locke’s semiotics and extending through Peirce’s theory of signs, the author finds applications in the interpretation of various artistic works (with particular ...focus on Japanese works, including haiku) to show how an understanding of aspects of the nature of signs makes possible insights not available through linguistic analysis alone. The vagueness in one poet’s use of the abstract noun mono ‘thing’ is shown to force the reader to contemplate properties ascribed thereto at the phenomenological level Peirce calls “firstness”. Sound textures of words, visual components of Chinese characters, etc. are shown to produce powerful meaning effects beyond direct linguistic representation. Examples of one-to-many mappings from written characters to words, intertextuality, violations of selectional restrictions, and plays on words, etc. are examined to show how aspects of signs function to evoke layers of meaning easily ignored in linguistic analyses that concentrate only on the “thirdness” of everyday language.
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