Autor: Stephan Küpper
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En revant d’un oiseau-lyre
Vor ein paar Wochen war ich in Hannover auf dem Treffen des Klassikgitarre-Forum und hatte die Ehre dort ein Stück von Bernard Reeb vorzuspielen. Ein oiseau-lyre ist ein Leierschwanz, kein Schleierschwanz – da hatte der Forumskollege recht und nicht ich. Wie auch immer, ich hoffe, es gefällt.
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Senmurv or Dragon?
Following my recent blog post on Senmurv-like creatures in an iconostasis at the Ikonenmuseum Recklinghausen. I received an answer from the museum’s director, Dr. Lutz Rickelt. In his opinion the depicted creatures are dragons, whose presence in an iconostasis may be interpreted as a symbol of evil that Christ’s victory has overcome. In some iconistases,…
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Senmurvs move in mysterious ways…
… to an iconostasis that is on display in the Recklinghausen Icon Museum.
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AI Podcast „Von der Freiheit eines Ratgebers im frühneuzeitlichen Russland“
Academia.edu wandelt seit neuestem populäre Artikel in AI-generierte Podcasts um, und hier ist meiner: https://www.academia.edu/ai_podcast/110800384 Everything you ever wanted to know about Russian autocracy in under five minutes.
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What do Ring Structures mean?
Do structures have a meaning at all? The common Structuralist approach – to which we adhere – is a clear yes. Structure is meaning. Structure imparts a certain meaning, too – if only in the sense that adherence to a certain, already-known structure shapes readers‘ expectations, and and hence produces meaning. A chiastic pattern suggests…
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Grimus – Simurg
Grimus is Salman Rushdie’s first novel. The title is an anagramm of „Simurg“, and the text is full of what one character calls „the ornithology of myth“ (Ch. 1). Grimus as a character is the secretive figure who seems to rule Calf (Qaf) Island, where most of the book takes place. Grimus claims to have…