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The Sense of “Pleasure” in Eastern Chant

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Chaldaeakes A.

Human and Social Studies

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2015

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vol. 4

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issue 1

119-138

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Music is by default a key element of every kind of Entertainment. Actually, the two terms (Pleasure and Music) are almost synonymous in the geographical area of the East - especially during the late medieval period - and there is a plethora of relevant evidence in the rescued literature and musicological sources to support this argument. It seems that there is a mutual and interactive “dialogue” between the two terms. This is an ideological and philosophical dialogue, as well as a completely fundamental and practical one: the musicians (the people who actually carry out the musical task) channel in abundance and mainly ensure the pleasure of the people who participate in any type of entertainment; and they do so through both their presence and their performance. However, at the same time, in order to acquire the ability to act in this way, i.e. to bring the “entertaining” dimension of music to the forefront, they themselves have to be in a position to experience music as pleasure, to grasp the multiple gratifications which are hidden at the very core of every kind of music. In both circumstances we can refer to two high level conquests of the Spirit and the Art: the pleasure of Music and music for Pleasure. In the present article Ι will attempt a first approach of the issue and an outline of its twofold dimension.

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The Shivers of Knowledge

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Schoeller F.

Human and Social Studies

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2015

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vol. 4

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issue 3

26-41

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Aesthetic chills occur in artistic, scientific and religious context. We introduce a theoretical framework relating them to humans’ vital need for cognition. We discuss the implications of such a framework and the plausibility of our hypothesis. Numerous references to chills are introduced (quotes from, inter alios, artists, physicists and mathematicians).

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Lire un classique : temporalité, (dé)plaisirs et résonance de l’œuvre littéraire

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Marpeau A.-C.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2022

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vol. 32

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issue Special Issue

228-243

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A doxa of the literary institution consists in associating the reading of a classic to a timeless and universal pleasure. But this conception clashes with the real experience of reading a classic text, whose framework, most often school and university, implies a reading framed in time and in its finalities. Based on the results of a research conducted among high school students who read Madame Bovary as part of the literary section curriculum (baccalauréat littéraire), the article therefore examines the forms of pleasure and displeasure that reading a classic takes on today, in relation to the temporal framework that is specific to it.

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2 Human and Social Studies

1 Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

1 Chaldaeakes A.

1 Marpeau A.-C.

1 Schoeller F.

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The Sense of “Pleasure” in Eastern Chant

The Shivers of Knowledge

Lire un classique : temporalité, (dé)plaisirs et résonance de l’œuvre littéraire