В связи с большим объемом эпос «Манас» дошел до наших дней во множестве вариантов, что объясняется невозможностью его заучивания сказителями, которые, перенимая у предшественников общий сюжет, канву, воспроизводили в соответствии со своим импровизаторско-поэтическим даром. Изучение различных вариантов эпоса — важная научная проблема. Собирание, запись и публикация, сравнение между собой их изуч...

WI-lEN DR. CARLOS P. ROMULO VISITED l)AKISTAN IN THE EARLY spring of 1965, this writer-as a Fulbright Lecturer stationed there-had the opportunity and pleasure of meeting him and listening to his talk at the Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, Karachi. A presidential adviser on for· eign affairs and head of the most influential university in the Philippines with a long, distinguished e...

gadamer’s critique of methodologism is one of the fundamental teachings of his philosophical hermeneutics. gadamer sees truth much beyond the ability of method to grasp it completely. he criticizes the exclusive restriction of truth in methodical processes but does not reject the need for methodical work.the present article explores the origins of methodologism in ancient greece and modern time...

This collection of essays, most of which have appeared in print before, bears the clear impress of the author's career as a historian of rhetoric who applied his scholarly labors to UCLA's composition program. Lanham, author of The Handlist of Rhetorical Terms (1991), The Motives of Eloquence (1976), and Style: An Anti-Textbook (1974), brings a valuable perspective to questions involving digita...

• Man\' of Lincoln's best remembered oratit)n,s, including the House Divided Speech, the Cooper Union Address, and the Gettysburg Address, exhibit a elear pattern of temporal organization. The introductory remarks establish an orientation divided into past, p')rc.scnt, and future, and then the three tenses reappear in the body of the speech, each marking out one of its major divisions. Close re...

the rest of the book, she illustrates these weaknesses effectively while applying the insights gained from both approaches. She is invariably thorough, sensible, and sensitive when analyzing ethical challenges that can arise when acquiring or deaccessioning materials, providing equitable access, protecting the privacy of patrons and donors, authenticating materials , and determining the circums...

NIVERSITIES are hostile to Genius," said ' Emerson. He might have cited the University SI of Paris and Vesalius as a case in point. For here was a genius who had articled with destiny to dedicate himself, his gifts, his splendid impatience to Reform; and here a University so encrusted and anklyosed with Conservatism that there was nothing quite like it in Europe at the time. What was Vesalius d...

TiE Victorian era secured for man the revolutionary concepts of geological time and natural selection and may well have been the last epoch in which the world of science was seriously contested by the principles of theology, if not the ethics of religion. Not since the time of Galileo was there a greater need for resolution and compromise between these opposing forces. Thomas Henry Huxley clear...

The Indonesian province of Aceh is known as rebellious. The most recent eruption was the civil war between the Indonesian army and the ethno-nationalist separatist movement GAM, which started in 1976 and could only be ended after the destructive Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. Aceh is also known as strictly Islamic. When Aceh is featured in the media, the focus is often on the implementation, sin...

Rarely can a popularly oriented scientific text be described as accurate and beautiful: Dr. Stonelhouse's book is such a rarity. In the strict sense, this is not a text, for it does not catalog and describe in concise paragraphs each species and variant of flora and fauna existing in the Arctic and sub-Arctic areas; instead, it uses over 200 beautifully reproduced photograplhs to supplement the...