The universe is a grand book, Galileo noted in 1623, written in the language of mathematics (1). Those poor souls who don’t understand that language, he cautioned, wander about in a “dark labyrinth.” As languages go, mathematics can be intimidating. Plenty of people linger in the shade of Galileo’s labyrinth. To the uninitiated, equations, theorems, and proofs—to say nothing of their constituen...

This paper presents the current advances in “The Muses of Poetry”, an on-going project that combines interaction, emotions and poetry. The goal of the project is to create an interactive installation where a virtual character not only recites poetry, but also manifests the affective content of the poem through facial expressions and voice rhythm. The novelty of our work is the combination of di...

This paper presents the advances in expressive speech for the interactive installation The Muses of Poetry, as well as the results of an evaluation to assess the interaction and emotional experience of the participants. The objective of the installation is to bring poetry closer to a wider audience through the use of animated characters who not only read poetry, but also manifest the emotional ...

In his article "Politics of Indigeneity in Fogarty's Poetry" Sean Gorman discusses Indigenous themes and issues with regards to the poetry of Murri writer Lionel Fogarty. As Fogarty is seen as a poet who writes complex prose, his material challenges non-Indigenous readerships by subverting Standard English and conventional reading practices. Gorman suggests strategies by which to engage with Fo...

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 ...

A growing number of studies are investigating the way that aesthetic experiences are generated across different media. Empathy with a perceived human artist has been suggested as a common mechanism [1]. In this study, people heard 30 s excerpts of ambiguous music and poetry preceded by neutral, positively valenced, or negatively valenced information about the composer's or author's intent. The ...

failures and contradictions of life cause confusion and disrupt personality structure of ego. under such conditions, human psychological defense system is activated to overcome anxiety which threats the ego and to recover one's calmness. seyyed qotb and shahriar have also infected by anxiety and unfavorable excitements in their lives, because of individual, social, political,…, factors. si...

the musical symbol is one way of expression among many other ways. it doesn`t directly correspond with meaning or reality. rather, it provides images that are representative of the original. however, symbols goes beyond this and provide deep significant symbolic meanings and visions. mystical poetry has a complex intellectual structure, particularly in arabic and persian literature. hence, musi...

Yaghma, The literary magazine in the field of poetry, started its activity with the aim of preserving ancient achievements and countering every kind of unapproved innovations and novelty. This was in spite of the fact that many years had passed since the beginning of modern poetry and there have emerged famous figures in Nimaei poetry. The present article intends to see how much Yaghma was succ...