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Green Worlds And Ecosemiotics, Paul Siewers Nov 2011

Green Worlds And Ecosemiotics, Paul Siewers

Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations

"Overlay landscapes" in Early Insular literatures, and how they connect early medieval cosmology with current-day ecosemiotics..


The Ecosemiosphere: Story And Region In Insular Medieval Literatures, Paul Siewers Jun 2011

The Ecosemiosphere: Story And Region In Insular Medieval Literatures, Paul Siewers

Faculty Conference Papers and Presentations

Reflections on the interrelation of environmental humanities studies, physics and semiotics, as part of an international panel introducing ecosemiotics and biosemiotics to the North American ecocriticism communtiy at large.


Discovering Border Crossings In Pagan Epic Literature, Marian Russell Bland Jan 2011

Discovering Border Crossings In Pagan Epic Literature, Marian Russell Bland

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation argues that border crossings were important to the ancient Celts and Norse as evidenced by the vast quantity of occurrences in their literature,and have remained important themes in literature throughout the ages. Border crossings reflect man's fascination with concepts beyond his immediate existence and understanding. His reactions to such inexplicable phenomena have provided inspiration to writers for hundreds of years. The investigation uncovers examples of border crossings in the epic stories captured in the Ulster and Fenian Cycles, TheTáin, The Eddas, and The Mabinogion.

Border crossings remain important for modern literary scholars to consider …


The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2011

The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 2, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

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The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2011

The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 1, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.


The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2011

The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 3, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.


The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 4, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society Jan 2011

The Shanachie, Volume 23, Number 4, Connecticut Irish-American Historical Society

The Shanachie (CTIAHS)

No abstract provided.


Tunepal: Searching A Digital Library Of Traditional Music Scores, Bryan Duggan, Brendan O'Shea Jan 2011

Tunepal: Searching A Digital Library Of Traditional Music Scores, Bryan Duggan, Brendan O'Shea

Reports

Purpose – This paper aims to describe the Tunepal project as an example of a music information retrieval (MIR) system that is having an impact on how musicians access, learn and play traditional Irish music around the world. Design/methodology/approach – This paper describes the functionality of the Tunepal system: consisting of the tune corpus, the web site tunepal.org and mobile apps supporting iOS and Android OS. Tunepal facilitates query-by-title and query-by-playing music (QBP) searches and allows a musician to retrieve and playback scores amongst other supported functions. Findings – Tunepal has been favorably received and musicians report that the system …