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Psychological configurations and literary characters : a systems view
(De Gruyter, 2000)The object of the present paper is to apply concepts and models of systems theory (Mazur, 1966, 1976) to generate statements and definitions relevant to the human psyche in general and to the characters described in literary ... -
Androgyny and (near) perfect marriage : a systems view of the genders of Leopold and Molly Bloom
(Northern Illinois University, 2010)The essay seeks to analyse the nature of the marital relations between Leopold and Molly Bloom from Joyce’s Ulysses in the light of the spouses’ respective psychological genders. The analysis is underpinned by systems ... -
What is literature? A systems definition.
(De Gruyter, 1999)One of the main methodological problems in any academic inquiry is that of definition. Defining things, processes, and phenomena is unavoidable because one has to identify and describe, however generally, the object of ... -
A systems model of the evolution of literary paradigms
(De Gruyter, 2002)The paper applies a cybernetic theory of the dynamism of systems to create a model of the evolution of literary paradigms in a macro-historical perspective, that is, from the hypothetical beginnings of literature up to the ... -
Spenser’s 'golden squire' and the 'golden Meane': numbers and proportions in Book II of the Faerie Queene
(AMS Press Inc, 2000)The essay interprets Spenser's arithmetical and geometrical metaphors of temperance in their primary, mathematical sense, and argues that the 'golden squire' used to measure out a 'mean' of temperance refers to the ... -
Towards systems semiotics: some remarks and (hopefully useful) definitions
(SemiotiX New Series, 2010-03)Investigations into semiotic theory typically begin with the fundamental question: what is a sign? A definition is then offered, usually quoted from an established authority (such as C. S. Peirce), to get the argument ... -
Literature as interaction : a systems model of literary composition and reception
(Konstanta Publishers, 2000)can it be reduced to a selected element or types of elements. For example, a reduction of literary meaning to a single factor: be it the socio -economic conditions in which the text is produced (as in Marxist criticism), ... -
‘A god / good kissing carrion’ : Hamlet II.ii.181
(Regents of the University of Colorado, 2001)During his first public appearance as a ‘madman ,’ Hamlet treats the importunate Polonius with a number of equivocations, saying among other things what in most editions of the play is rendered as: ‘For if the sun breed ... -
The Sound-Symbolic Quality of Word-Initial Gr-Cluster in Middle English Alliterative Verse
(The Modern Language Society of Helsinki, 2001)Sound symbolism or linguistic iconicity, is based on the assumption that language contains instances of a natural, imitative, non-arbitrary connection between the form of the linguistic sign and its meaning. At the same ...