poets who spoke in poetic characters’ Vico and the artificer

While modern theories of knowledge begin with something present to the mind - e.g., Descartes begins with self-evidently true, clear, and simple innate ideas - Vico, begins by asking how it is that the mind comes to have anything present to it at all (Verene, 1981).And it is precisely to this question that Vico claims … Continue reading poets who spoke in poetic characters’ Vico and the artificer

Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

 "The first was Ernest Fenollosa's provocative essay 'The Chinese Wriiten Character as a Medium for Poetry.' He found the Pound-edited text of the essay in the latter's book Instigations and excitedly copied out its main arguments into his notebook that June. Fenollosa's account of the exhaustion of poetic qualities in modern discourse resulting from a … Continue reading Fenollosa Pound Olson and the Chinese written character

Semanto-phonetic writing systems

Semanto-phonetic writing systemshttp://www.omniglot.com/writing/semanto-phonetic.phpThe symbols used in these semanto-phonetic writing systems often represent both sound and meaning. As a result, these scripts generally include a large number of symbols: anything from several hundred to tens of thousands. In fact there is no theoretical upper limit to the number of symbols in some scripts, such as Chinese. … Continue reading Semanto-phonetic writing systems

Vico’s age of heroes and the age of men…

Great big thanks to BOBBY CAMPBELL for putting this one up. Cheers:http://www.bobbycampbell.net/VICO-LIBERTY.html Title: Vico's age of heroes and the age of men in John Ford's film 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.' (Giambattista Vico) Author(s): Vittorio Hosle and Mark W. Roche Source: CLIO. 23.2 (Winter 1994): p131. From Literature Resource Center. Document Type: Article  Vico, … Continue reading Vico’s age of heroes and the age of men…