Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9265367
Alissa Valles
Under the sign of Libitina, the Roman goddess of burials and funerals invoked in Horace's Ode 3.30, this essay provides a celebratory introduction to the work of the Polish Jewish poet Zuzanna Ginczanka (1917–44), situating her within the cultural history of commemoration and consecration of the dead in Poland and the painful confrontation with the unburied dead of the Holocaust, of whom Ginczanka is one. Her best-known poem, a bitter parody of Juliusz Słowacki's “My Testament,” turns the Horatian notion of poetry as the most precious and enduring legacy on its head by construing the author's meager household possessions, looted after her denunciation to the Nazis in wartime, as the only offering her fellow citizens will cherish, while the text itself was actually brought as evidence in a postwar trial of the Polish woman she accuses in the poem and contributed to a conviction for collaboration. Using historian Thomas Laqueur's terms necro-sociability and necronominalism as competing impulses in a seemingly intractable struggle, this essay argues that it is possible to find in Ginczanka's joyful defiance of traditional accounts of body and spirit the point of departure for a poetics that claims a new freedom of imagination in the attempt to transcend the most stubborn of memory wars.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-9268249
Thibault De Meyer
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Pub Date : 2021-07-21DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906145
R. Armantrout
1. In many terrestrial ecosystems earthworms operate at the interface between plants and soil. As ecosystem engineers, they affect key ecosystem functions such as decomposition, nutrient cycling and bioturbation. Their incidence and abundance depends on several soil properties, yet simultaneously they also impact soil properties themselves. The existence of a positive feedback loop in which earthworm activity maintains their own niche - by promoting turnover rate in the forest floor, thereby increasing topsoil pH and creating suitable living conditions for themselves has been suggested before, yet lacks supporting evidence. Here we assessed how tree species litter traits relate to such belowground interactions in forests across Europe. Specifically, we hypothesized a belowground feedback loop between burrowing earthworm biomass, humus form and pH, affected by litter quality. We tested this hypothesis by means of structural equation modelling. 3. Our results demonstrate that litter nutrient concentrations affect both burrowing and litter dwelling earthworm biomass, which in turn directly impact humus form and indirectly soil pH. At a continental scale, i.e. including all edaphic conditions, soil pH did not feed into earthworm biomass nor could we link leaf structural recalcitrance (e.g. lignin) or functional diversity to belowground interactions.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906187
S. Perry
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906117
C. Richmond
Abstract:On the basis of reports that Jan van Eyck visited England (he was well traveled in the service of Philip the Good, duke of Burgundy), this essay speculates freely on what the diplomat and painter actually did in and around London for three weeks in 1428. The essay claims, for example, that van Eyck went to the village of Foots Cray to buy watercresses to use as models when painting greenery on the Ghent Altarpiece of the Mystic Lamb (which he completed in 1432). The recently erected gateway to the palace at Greenwich is said likewise to be the model for a towered gateway depicted on the altarpiece. After providing local detail about relevant parts of England in 1428, the essay closes with speculation (although the author writes, "The facts are known") about the origin of a harp, of a purportedly Welsh variety, appearing on the altarpiece in the hands of an angel. The author argues that it was the instrument of an itinerant Breton musician whom van Eyck had heard in recital at the Poor Clares convent of the Holy Trinity at the Minories in Aldgate. The harpist subsequently murdered his Stepney landlady and was himself killed by enraged local housewives. Van Eyck is said to have purchased the man's harp when his worldly goods were posthumously sold.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906285
N. Halmi
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906229
S. Stephens
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Pub Date : 2021-05-01DOI: 10.1215/0961754x-8906173
E. Honisch
This article uses music and the discourse about music to understand the practice of tolerance in Prague during the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty Years’ War. Drawing on Las ensaladas (Prague, 1581), a collection of vernacular polyphony compiled by the Spanish composer Mateo Flecha the Younger, and Harmoniae morales (Prague, 1589–90), comprising musical settings of Latin texts by the Slovenian composer Jacobus Handl, the article argues that such music offered Prague's diverse citizens a medium for reflecting on how to live morally and peaceably. Ultimately, this article challenges the commonplace that musical harmony offered an effective model for social harmony, arguing that the practice of singing together exposed the limits of tolerance even as it illuminated how difference might be accommodated.
本文运用音乐和音乐话语来理解三十年战争爆发前布拉格的宽容实践。文章借鉴了西班牙作曲家小马特奥·弗莱查（Mateo Flecha the Younger）汇编的本地复调集《Las ensaladas》（布拉格，1581年）和斯洛文尼亚作曲家雅各布斯·汉德尔（Jacobus Handl）的拉丁文本音乐背景《Harmoniae morales》（布拉格（1589-90年），认为这种音乐为布拉格不同的公民提供了一种反思如何道德和平生活的媒介。最终，这篇文章挑战了音乐和谐为社会和谐提供了有效模式这一老生常谈的观点，认为一起唱歌的做法暴露了宽容的极限，尽管它揭示了如何适应差异。
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