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The science of ritual
In: Post-graduate and Research Department series 15
In: Professor P. D. Gune Memorial Lectures 1
Dhanurveda: the Vedic military science
Political thought in ancient India: emergence of the state, evolution of kingship, and inter-state relations based on the saptāṅga theory of state
In: Reconstructing Indian history & culture 2
"yfrin tól / fútúr gól". Nokkur orð um Tourette og ljóðlist
In: Kynbundið ofbeldi II; Ritið, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 289-306
ISSN: 2298-8513
Should the progress in the biological sciences during the last decades give rise to a re-evaluation of literary analysis? The paper opens with a discussion of this question with reference to a fragment of Dagur Sigurðarson's poem "Takk takk Tobbi", pub-lished in Rógmálmur og grásilfur (1971). The question is answered partly affirmative-ly, mostly on the grounds that embodied cognition has to be taken into account when analysing literature. It is pointed out that among the factors that have contributed to a better understanding of the complex relation between the body and language is recent research on Tourette syndrome. The relationship between this neurological disorder and poetry is the main subject of the paper and it is discussed with refer-ence to a scaldic strophe from The Saga of Gisli Sursson. First, Tourette-syndrome is discussed briefly, including the medical profession's stance toward it during the 19thand 20th century and scholarly work on the common traits that the disorder shares with poetry. Subsequently it is considered how these writings can benefit literary scholarship, Gisli Sursson's strophe is analysed and it is proposed that this analysis can't rely on metrical rules alone. Then the aforementioned poem by Dagur Sig-urðarson is reconsidered, and finally a few points are recapitulated.
Fræðamörk: Um markalínur milli heimspeki og grannvísinda hennar í rannsóknum á hruninu
In: Íslenskar kvikmyndir; Ritið, Band 19, Heft 2, S. 275-327
ISSN: 2298-8513
The astonishing range of writings about the social causes and consequences of the Icelandic 2008 financial crisis proffers a unique opportunity to analyse comparative-ly how scholars from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences deal with one and the same subject. How does the scholarly approach differ regarding the employment of theories, hypotheses, empirical data and concepts? Is the methodology of the humanities noticeably different from that of the social sciences? Did the boundaries of philosophy and related sciences change in times of crisis, momentarily or permanently?