Scottish Literature and Visual Art: A Caledonian Synergy

Neurological eponyms derived from literature and visual art.

Eponyms are common in medicine, and neurology is not an exception. Most neurological eponyms originate from the names of those who first described a disease or pathological condition, as well as from the names of characters from the literature and mythical or biblical heroes. The article describes en block both widespread and nowadays seldom used or even forgotten neurological eponyms derived f...

features of short story in translated and non-translated literature: a polysystemic perspective

ترجمه متون ادبی در دنیای امروز از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. فرهنگ های مختلف با استفاده از متون ادبی ملل و فرهنگ های دیگر سعی در غنی کردن فرهنگ و ادبیات کشور خود دارند. کشور ما نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. در ایران، ترجمه متون ادبی اروپائی که با دوران مشروطه ایرانی آغاز می شود موجب تغییرات اساسی در فرهنگ، شیوه زندگی و تفکر ایرانیان شده است. در این دوران نه تنها در امورات سیاسی و فکری کشور تغی...

Literature as a Fine Art

Constituents of Music and Visual-Art Related Pleasure – A Critical Integrative Literature Review

The present literature review investigated how pleasure induced by music and visual-art has been conceptually understood in empirical research over the past 20 years. After an initial selection of abstracts from seven databases (keywords: pleasure, reward, enjoyment, and hedonic), twenty music and eleven visual-art papers were systematically compared. The following questions were addressed: (1)...

Leprosy in literature and art.

./ Literature and fine art, the 1wo most important and idealistic cultural factors in society, have traditionally been assigned the goals of prcsenting chieHy the two Greek ideals of beauty : the beautiful and the good. Neither, has, however, shied away from picturing the nonpicturesqu e as seen, for exa mple, in .the ugly and often offendin g appearances of major plagues whi ch have left their...