This essay analyzes the work of the poetic function as defined by Roman Jakobson in poems by Francisco de Quevedo that concern themselves with the trope of the rending of the rocks at the moment of Christ’s death on the cross, and in other poetic texts of Quevedo.

Literary translations work with, rather than out of, the space between languages. Translations evolve not only across linguistic and cultural borders but also across time. It is notable that Shakespeare’s own play texts feature translational properties that can be amplified in translation. This translingual property makes Shakespeare’s text inh…[Read more]

The article describes two accounts of Poland and the culture of its people. The first of these dates from 1784 and was written by the Marquis de Ségur, a French diplomat travelling to St Petersburg. The second, from 1840, was written by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz, at the time working as a professor at the Collège de France in Paris. I try t…[Read more]

This book discusses advances in the dairy industry in various parts of the world. It is divided into four sections on “Dairy Technology”, “Reproductive Biotechnology”, “Entrepreneurship Development”, and “Sustainable Development”. Chapters address such topics as regional dairy breeds, farming innovations, mineral nutrition, folliculogenesi…[Read more]

Focussing on the Duchy of Cornwall’s organisational structure during the Wars of the Roses, this survey examines the principal offices (which evolved around administration of its marine and terrene regalities) and personnel (administrative elite) in Cornwall and Devon. Consideration of successive Princes’ Councils and counsellors (and Councils of…[Read more]

Avery Cornburgh (d.1487) of Bere Ferrers (Devon) and Dovers (Essex) – a Lancastrian, Yorkist, and Tudor household servant – was one of the appreciable numbers of crown servants utilised in local government during the fifteenth century. Serving in Cornwall and Essex as JP, MP, sheriff, and commissioner, he was prominent in Cornish affairs as a res…[Read more]

Four colleagues–a faculty member, a digital services librarian, a research librarian, and a curator of Special Collections–take turns describing their role in creating an undergraduate student project around an eighteenth-century almanac that belonged to Marie-Antoinette. In recounting the steps taken, the collaborative process, the student…[Read more]

Bahujan criticism underlines the presence of not only literature of the Dalit, Adivasi, and OBC sections but also Brahmanical and other dwija (upper caste) literature; and it also brings out aspects of their fundamental (social) make-up and their consequences. It interprets entrenched values and aesthetics in various kinds of literature. Thus,…[Read more]

बहुजन आलोचना न सिर्फ़ दलित, आदिवासी व पिछड़ा वर्ग के साहित्य बल्कि ब्राह्मणवादी साहित्य और अन्य द्विज साहित्य की मौजूदगी को भी चिन्हित करती है और उनकी बुनावट के मूल (सामाजिक) पहलुओं और उसके परिणामों को सामने लाती है। विविध प्रकार के साहित्य में विन्यस्त मूल्यों और सौंदर्यबोध की मीमांसा करती है। इस प्रकार यह कई प्रकार के आवरणों, छद॒म…[Read more]

यह एक संस्मरणात्मक ललित निबंध है। इसमें बिहार के कथाकार व राजनेता जाबिर हुसेन, रामधारी सिंह दिवाकर और प्रमोद रंजन के बीच साहित्यिक रचना की स्वायत्तता को लेकर हुए विमर्श का प्रसंग है। लेखक का तर्क है किसी साहित्यिक रचना में उसकी पृष्ठभूमि के उल्लेख से उसकी स्वायत्तता भंग होती है और वह रचना के पूर्ण आस्वाद में बाधक होती है।

Research about the influence of the musicological outpput of relevant Researcher Constantin Floros