The English usage of the term “map” in its modern technical sense as a two-dimensional graphic representation of the earth’s surface dates at least to 1527, although this primary meaning appears infrequently in poetry and drama throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, despite the fact that, as of 1600, maps, globes, and atlases had become commonplace; geographical knowledge occupied ...

21 ноября 1924 г. Егише Чаренц из Батуми отправляется в международное путешествие на теплоходе «Буковина». За границей Чаренца воспринимают как символ СССР, красного поэта. Первой его остановкой был Трабзон, где он написал поэму «Ленин и Али», основанную полученных там впечатлениях. Затем следует Константинополь, 19–22 декабря «Стамбол» том же месяце издал ее отдельной книгой. 9 января 1925 уез...

Relevance of research connects with the need for an aesthetic assessment electronic opus. For a long time, their analysis was carried out exclusively from technological side (spectral analysis, creation graphic scores, construction models, exosemantic method, etc.) which led to conclusion that most professionals this sphere is still not so much music as technology. But Alfred Schnittke believed...

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A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, force; neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, trees!1 ‘A steal, /I fears.’ Given Wordsworth’s celebrated lyric is suspended its entirety above this essay, there decent chance you, reader, will have noticed ...

“Let us, then, be introduced to the actors in a placid way; let us see them going about their ordinary business, undisturbed by forebodings, pleased with surroundings; and into this calm environment ominous thing put out its head, unobtrusively at first, then more insistently, until it holds stage.”Montague Rhodes James, introduction Ghosts Marvels My father had an extensive repertoire of fragm...

This essay follows-up on a reminiscence written by Leonard Forster for GLL in 1988. was the editor of The Penguin Book German Verse, first published 1957. anthology intended post-war British readership, particularly schools, that seemed, despite everything, to have preserved an affectionate admiration poetry. Forster's selections often appear served as deliberate correctives ideological prefere...

In their article "Ethical Dilemma and Nihilism in Munro's 'Passion'" Xiying Liu and Hongbin Dai discuss ethics in Alice Munro's short story "Passion." When attempting to escape the shackles of multiple ethical identities, the short story's protagonist Grace encounters dilemmas and in consequence makes wrong decisions with regard to the principle of ethics. The other protagonist of the story, Ne...