“METAPHYSICAL” LYRICS: BASIC DEFINITIONS IN MODERN LITERARY STUDIES

Consciousness and Literary Studies

At this present juncture in the history of literature, many critics fear the literary word has been devalued by the twin forces of electronic technology and critical theory. Even so, the field of literature is not without resources to revivify itself as the emergence of new holistic approaches to literature testify. The interdisciplinary influence of the sciences, for instance, opens a window f...

Comparative literary studies

In an increasingly globalised and globalising world, „culture‟ appears as „an important determinant of subjectivity‟ and, consequently, of creative expression (Beautell 2000). With this in mind, Tötösy de Zepetnek (1999) prompted researchers to merge the comparative study of literature with that of cultural studies, embracing what he designated the new „comparative cultural studies‟ approach. I...

First Definitions and Basic Codes

Learnability : Basic Definitions , Examples , Results

The notion of learnability plays a central role in learning theory and continues to be an active topic of study. As noted in the last lecture, it is related to the notion of statistical consistency, with origins in theoretical computer science. Over the next few lectures, we will study various models of learnability related to the probably approximately correct (PAC) learning model introduced i...

Food Security – definitions and drivers 1. Some basic definitions

The concept of food security has been defined on numerous occasions by the international community and it has evolved considerably over time. One of the most fundamental shifts has been the change from an initial concept in which food security was considered equivalent to the reliable availability of food towards the contemporary notion in which food is one of the elements of a complex social c...