Search results for "Immortality"
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Emily Dickinson: An August Love on Earth
2018
Esta tesis examina tres de los cuarenta libros manuscritos, o cuadernillos, de la poeta Emily Dickinson (1830-1886). La forma, el contenido y la disposición de estos tres cuadernillos 11, 12 y 13 (los cuales incluyen un total de 66 poemas y fueron compilados durante 1863), confirman la presencia de un amante cuya figura supuso una fuerza inspiradora durante este período. Leer estos tres cuadernillos consecutivamente nos ayuda a entender la historia y proceso emocional de Dickinson; los poemas incluidos reflejan un amor que es obvio en el cuadernillo 11, puesto que la sitúa en un estado de expectativa constante. Este amor comienza a disminuir en el cuadernillo 12, situación que puede constat…
New Proposal on the Symbology of the Protohistoric Tray of El Gandul (Alcalá de Guadaira, Seville)
2018
En el presente artículo se realiza una nueva propuesta acerca del universo simbólico reflejado en la bandeja de bronce de El Gandul (Alcalá de Guadaíra, Sevilla). En primer lugar se presenta la pieza prestando atención a sus características formales y cronológicas. En un segundo apartado se realiza un resumen historiográfico de las anteriores hipótesis publicadas sobre parte o la totalidad de la simbología de la fuente. Tras dicho repaso se procede a describir la nueva propuesta, basada en el reflejo del mitema que tiene por objeto el empleo de una planta con propiedades en ocasiones rejuvenecedoras, en otras inmortales, como medio para alcanzar una vida eterna y/o revigorizada. Dicho mitem…
Meritare il perdono, meritare la memoria: equilibrio del discorso e verdetto della storia nella pro Marcello di Cicerone
2017
In the pro Marcello Cicero focuses on the merits of Marcellus and Caesar. The Marcellus’ virtutes (in continuity with his familiar tradition) confirm that his return may not represent a danger; his exile indeed is a real damage to the Republic. The theme of memory then allows Cicero to meditate on Caesar's politics: only defending the integrity of the state with his clementia, the statesman will obtain glory and immortality. The issue about the responsibilities of the Pompeian pars is also examined: many people have followed Pompeius not for ideological choices but only because of an error. Then Caesar must be able to propose a ‘good’ victory, or, in other words, an ethical and political mo…
La ejemplaridad de la muerte y la inmortalidad del saber en la literatura sapiencial medieval
2022
El origen escriturario de la muerte como castigo es el punto de partida de su ejemplaridad que, basada en presupuestos teológicos, le imprimió un halo de penitencia, que se perfila en todos los órdenes de actuación y convivencia del ser humano, en aras de conseguir el perdón y retornar a la gracia divina. En este trabajo se analizan los diferentes motivos que proyectan la ejemplaridad de la muerte en el ámbito de la literatura sapiencial: muerte física y muerte espiritual; trascendencia y sentencia del alma; el hecho maravilloso (milagros, premoniciones, relevaciones o visiones); el miedo (y lo macabro) ligado al arquetipo de la muerte transida y sus plasmaciones en variados tópicos (mement…
Echoes of Sapphic Gods and Goddesses, Immortality, Eros and Thanatos in the Work of Modernist Women Poets
2020
Abstract In the context of Modernism’s constant return to the past that results in self-knowledge and innovation, certain women writers found Sappho’s writings relevant for their own poetic endeavours. My article will mainly focus on the mythological aspects of both Sappho’s and the modernist women’s poetry. Invocations of and allusions to gods and goddesses and other mythical figures, which involve introspection and expressing certain erotic concerns in stylised ways, will be discussed in order to show how all these women poets innovated. and, in many different ways, significantly enriched the literature of their times. Critics have mainly focused on H.-D.’s poetry in relation to Sappho’s,…
A scientific approach to anti-ageing therapies: state of the art.
2008
A lasting dream of human beings is to reverse or at least postpone ageing. During the last years, an increasing number of scientific meetings, articles, and books have been devoted to anti-ageing therapies. This subject, full of misleading, simplistic, or wrong ideas, is very popular among the general public, whose imagery has been fascinated by all possible tools to delay ageing, getting immortality. Here, we discuss anti-ageing strategies aimed not to rejuvenate but to slow ageing and delay the onset of age-related diseases. These approaches should be able to substantially slow down the ageing process, extending our productive, youthful lives.
Visual legitimisation of astronomy in the sixteenth and seventeeth centuries: Atlas, Hercules and Tycho’s nose
2007
Abstract Images of the virtuous hero Hercules and the crowned King Atlas offered considerable potential for legitimising the new astronomy of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The accomplishments of Hercules, a seeker after virtue, with his exceptional learning, his role as disseminator of knowledge, his significance as an example of ideal manhood and, in addition to all, his achievement of immortality, invited comparison with the endeavours of astronomers. Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Hercules and Atlas appear as the spiritual authorities of the discipline, and each was called into use to symbolise both the old and the new astronomy. Both figures embodied qual…
Science and logic
2009
Kroppslighet og jomfrukur i Hans E. Kincks tragedie <i>Den sidste Gjest</i> (1910)
2011
In his play on Pietro Aretino (1492-1556), the Norwegian dramatist and novelist Hans E. Kinck (1865-1926) focuses on his character's relationship to the body and use of young women, in particular the young girl, Perina. A writer of great repute among his contemporaries Aretino is today known for his letters, plays, scandalous dialogues and pornographic sonnets in which grotesque images of the body are frequent. Kinck turns the Italian letterato both into a tragic victim of his own drives and a ruthless victimizer, although he in the process must avoid many aspects of Aretino's writing and character that it would be impossible to reproduce in print at the time, but in so doing he both reject…
“Al infierno los cuerpos”: el transhumanismo y el giro postmoderno de la utopía
2012
Se ha convertido en habitual afirmar que en la postmodernidad la utopía deja de ser viable. No es cierto. La postmodernidad produce sus propias utopías. Al examen del transhumanismo, quizás la más representativa de ellas, se presta este artículo. Objeto rector de estudio, las vicisitudes del cuerpo en la utopía citada. It has turned into a common fact to state that utopia in postmodernity is no longer feasible. It’s no true. Postmodernity produces it’s own utopies. This article focouses in the study of transhumanism, wich is probably the most representative among them. The guiding object of research will be the vicissitudes of the body in the quoted utopia.