Grotesque Encounters: Reading Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice along the Principles of the Sublime, Beautiful and Grotesque

This article is an attempt to apply the basic principles of the aesthetic discourse on the sublime, beautiful and grotesque to William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. Even though it is a discourse that only begins in the course of the eighteenth century, I will argue that the structure of the play parallels the model of the traditional sublime, as it deals with a subject-object binary and meditates on the relationship between the material (body) and the transcendental (mind). However, the play is also rich in disruptive — or grotesque — forces that unsettle this binary structure. The parallels between the play and the aesthetic discourse could not only help our understanding of postmodern criticism and rewriting of the sublime, but the sublime can also, in turn, shed light on the reception of the play

SÁNDOR VERESS: FADING INTO OBLIVION

The composers of the 20th century bring several innovations, resulting in a multitude of new musical movements, which will make this period to be the most intense and prolific era in all of music history. The representatives of the Hungarian School of composition is made up of Jenő Hubay, Ernő Dohnányi, Béla Bartók and Zoltán Kodály, and those who follow the footsteps of the new generation of Hungarian composers, later becoming some of the most famous and appreciated creators of their time, namely György Ligeti and György Kurtág. The present study will reflect upon the music of the 20th century and a creator of outstanding importance. Sándor Veress shaped and influenced many generations of composers and has continued the legacy of Bartók and Kodály in his own style. The three sections of the study will approach important biographical data of composer Sándor Veress, noting a few representative works from his oeuvre. The subchapter dedicated to his compositional style will broach upon the topic of the composition techniques used by the Hungarian creator, revealing both his sources of inspiration, as well as his ideas, his conceptual approach

The Beat of the Economic Heart: Joseph Schumpeter and Arthur Spiethoff on Business Cycles

The paper discusses the relationship between Arthur Spiethoff and Joseph A. Schumpeter, the men and their works. Had it not been for Spiethoff Schumpeter would in all probability have forever been lost to scientific work. It was Spiethoff who brought the Austrian back to academia and research after a sequence of serious mishaps in politics and banking. Spiethoff's contribution to an analysis of business cycles is then summarized and important similarities and some differences between it and Schumpeter's are pointed out. The view of Spiethoff and Schumpeter that cycles are endogenous and cannot possibly be eliminated without at the same time eliminating the dynamism of the capitalist economy is then couterposed with views of some of their contemporaries and particularly modern mainstream macroeconomics that this is not so.Schumpeter; Spiethoff; business cycles; innovations; creative destruction

Berlin, a Hollow Shell: The City as a Laboratory Study - A Report on the Ford Foundations Cultural and Artistic Projects in Post-war Berlin

Throughout the Cold War, American philanthropic organisations founded new institutions and supported already established institutions in West Berlin. They became essential players in the cultural life of the Western part of the former German capital. After a disastrous war and the dismemberment of Germany, the ex-capital Berlin, however, continued to exist – to employ a term of a British diplomat – as a "city on leave." Partly destroyed, disconnected from the "economic miracle" ("Wirtschaftswunder") of West Germany, and dependent for its survival on material assistance from the Federal Republic, the city nevertheless gained symbolic importance in the ideological conflict between the Soviet Union and the West. On a military level, the city was, as the French political scientist Raymond Aron put it, just a "glacis" in the Cold War's confrontations. But as a cultural outpost of Western democratic countries, the city obtained importance as a showcase for new artistic movements and cultural tendencies

Kenneth Burke\u27s Encounters with Walt Whitman

Explores in detail Kenneth Burke\u27s response to Whitman, arguing that we do not go to Burke for a reading of Whitman … ; we do not go to Burke for knowledge about the making of Leaves of Grass … or for a detailed reading of any poem except \u27When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom\u27d\u27 because ultimately Burke\u27s encounters with Whitman tend to tell us more about Burke than they do about Whitman

The BG News August 6, 2003

The BGSU campus student newspaper August 6, 2003. Volume 93 - Issue 12https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/bg-news/8137/thumbnail.jp

Primitive Thinking

This book examines the discourse on ‘primitive thinking’ in early 20th century Germany. It explores texts from the social sciences, writings on art and language and – most　centrally – literary works by Robert Musil, Walter Benjamin, Gottfried Benn and Robert Müller, focusing on three figures of alterity prominent in European primitivism:　indigenous cultures, children, and the mentally ill