VOLUME 1(2) • 2013
To be or not to be normal, that is the question of Gauguin
ABSTRACT. The case of Paul Gauguin, which will be dealt with in terms of artistic anthropology, is one of the most significant for the development of 20th century art. His artistic legacy was a fusion of reality and imagination, to the point of reaching the deep symbolic realms of the psyche. That h..
Gothic Church Architecture in Romania
ABSTRACT. This brief survey of medieval Gothic church architecture in Romania follows very belatedly in the wake of Banister Fletcher’s classic A History of Architecture on the Comparative Method published jointly by B.T. Batsford, London, and C. Scribner’s Sons, New York, in 1896. It is a lightweig..
(Anti-)normwise piano interpretation
ABSTRACT. The matter of timbre in piano interpretation is pretty catchy when it comes to teaching and learning this instrument. In connection with the affirmative or negative answer to the question whether the interpreter might be able to change the timbre of the instrument while the work is in prog..
It’s not elementary!
ABSTRACT. The paper outlines the personality of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s great fictional detective Sherlock Holmes from the perspective of personality trait psychology. Relying on evidence extracted from the sixty texts (short stories and novels) that form the so-called “canon,” we follow up the hyp..
Norm-based cultural creation
ABSTRACT. Cultural phenomena exist and express themselves in terms of two contradictory aspects. On the one hand, the norm makes them join some tradition so that they should be given the possibility to be recognized, accepted and understood; on the other hand, creation requires them to be different ..
On accommodation and its consequences
ABSTRACT. The consequence and the significance of accommodation for the normativity of presuppositions are being dealt with, the conclusions being that accommodation arises at the semantics/pragmatics interface; accommodation leaves unaffected the normative potential of a sentence’s presupposition; ..
The autopoietic nucleus of style
ABSTRACT. A major contradiction that Georges Mounin found in Roman Jakobson’s theory is that the two principles (the “equivalence” of the text components and the “defamiliarization” that breaks the equivalent recurrence of these components thus bringing forth the “frustrated expectation”) that come ..
Truth-based formal norms
ABSTRACT. Unjustifiably so, logicians have associated the principles of opposition and conditioning to tautological formulae that involve the absolute negation. But the purpose of principles is to differentiate between relative degrees of affirmation and negation, which is why their significance is ..
EMI-stressed CIED patients
ABSTRACT. The number of patients receiving pacemaker implantations has been increasing year in year out, with expanding indications for device therapies with a view to the management of cardiovascular diseases – since the impressive technological developments of this technology starting more than 60..
Finding the way back through systematic confusion
ABSTRACT. Although the connection was made a long time ago, it took the genius of a Dalí to turn paranoia into a method of artistic creation of immense potential. Drawing on the interpretative vision of the paranoiac, the Spanish artist used its specific psychic mechanism to construct objects of art..
Unequal to the Napoleon code
ABSTRACT. With an eye to the Napoleon Code that was less than fair in its treatment of women, and never forgetting about Gustave Flaubert’s “confession,” that “Madame Bovary c’est moi,” we will be dealing with this larger-than-life heroine who has invited opinions as diverse as could be: a sinful ad..
Lifting the veil off Old Thunder: the rise of Leviathan
ABSTRACT. Ahab, aka Old Thunder, a veritable vieillard terrible of American literature, is one of the greatest enigmas of the narrative imagination. Melville may even have not been aware how much of the essence of this ominous character in Moby Dick he borrowed into his own life. The present researc..