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Book 2013.0

Tuning the Self

Eelco van Es

Edition
1 edition

Literature Peter Lang Publishing 9783034313780 Available

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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour

Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.

Identifier: 9783034313780

Status: Available

Book 2013.0

Vėlyvojo baroko vargondirbystės menas Lietuvos Didžiojoje Kunigaikštystėje

Girėnas Povilionis

Music Vargonų paveldo centras 9786099548500 Available

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Annotation: The monograph systematizes archival information about the 16th-19th centuries. masters who built the organ in Lithuania in the first half. After identifying the aspects of the formation and establishment of the Vilnius School of Handicrafts, the features of the originality of this school and the questions of the instrument's originality are analyzed in detail. The book presents a classification of typical Vilnius School organ prospectuses, analyzes the authentic eighteenth-century ones stored in the Old and Rare Prints section of the VDA library. organ projects-sketches of the second half. Using the arguments of the hypothetical reconstruction of prospectuses and instruments, the Vilnius St. Authorship of the organ of St. John's Church and Vilnius Archcathedral.

Identifier: 9786099548500

Status: Available

Journal Article 1997

The seven deadly sins and the Catholic Church

John Deely

In: Semiotica 1997, Issue 2024-02-04 00:00:00

Pages
67-102

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.67

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1997.117.2-4.67

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Book 1995.0

The generation of meanings in liturgical songs

Willem Marie Speelman

Music Kok Phaos 9039005117 Available

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Annotation: This book is about the meaning of liturgical songs. Everybody who sings liturgical songs knows what liturgical songs is and also what it means. But when we start to talk about them, things become confused. We know too much and there are too many languages in which we can express what we think their meaning is. And what is worse, other people seem no to understand what we say and immediately reply that we may know a lot but not what they know. Then the discussion turns into a quarrel amongst people who know too much and cannot communicate what they know. A wise person may enter into the quarrel and say that communication about liturgical songs can only succeed when we sing together. Then we will sing together, confused and angry, because we now also know that the other people may sings very well, but do not understand what they are doing. This is what has been happening for decades in the Dutch churches. Perhaps we should be silent and start to look and listen very carefully to liturgical songs, while developing a language in which the songs themselves can speak, communicating what they have to say. The looking and listening will take much time and energy: there are no more easy answers. And the language will be so difficult that we are forced to be silent, waiting and hoping for a word to come. -back cover

Identifier: 9039005117

Status: Available