Key to the affirmative reading of " Ulysses " is the biographical context of the poem.

He insisted he was not excluding context because a poem possesses organic unity, and it is possible to derive a historical and biographical context from the language the poet uses ( Singh 1991 ).

It provides the biographical context of every composition along with musical analysis or commentary.

Barthes's essay argues against traditional literary criticism's practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical context of an author in an interpretation of a text, and instead argues that writing and creator are unrelated.

In his essay, Barthes argues against the method of reading and criticism that relies on aspects of the author's identity — her political views, historical context, religion, ethnicity, psychology, or other biographical or personal attributes — to distill meaning from the author's work.

While still largely accurate factually ( only rarely have ancient texts been emended so severely as to warrant a biographical change ), much is missing, especially more recent discoveries ( like Aristotle's Constitution of the Athenians, or the decipherment of Linear B ) and epigraphic material ; perhaps more seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed has often changed in the intervening century and a half.

In it, Thomas and Znaniecki used a biographical approach to understanding culture in general that remains influential nowadays, as well as an approach to understanding ethnicity in particular that in many respects was ahead of its time and is currently being rediscovered in the context of transnational studies in migration.

The formalist approach reduces the importance of a text ’ s historical, biographical, and cultural context.

In the mid-6th century, the Byzantine historian Agathias of Myrina records, in the context of the wars of the Goths and Franks against Byzantium, that the Alemanni fighting among the troops of Frankish king Theudebald were like the Franks in all respects except religion, since

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Cináed mac Ailpín may date from the end of the tenth century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

The earliest genealogical records of the descendants of Kenneth MacAlpin may date from the end of the 10th century, but their value lies more in their context, and the information they provide about the interests of those for whom they were compiled, than in the unreliable claims they contain.

In the context of events like this, the Japanese have traditionally accepted this sovereign's historical existence ; however, no extant contemporary records have been discovered which confirm a view that this historical figure actually reigned.

The earliest written records of Christian images treated like icons in a pagan or Gnostic context are offered by the 4th-century Christian Aelius Lampridius in the Life of Alexander Severus ( xxix ) that was part of the Augustan History.

Sorting n-tuples ( depending on context also called e. g. records consisting of fields ) can be done based on one or more of its components.

The medieval records of the battle are too elusive to trace the course of the battle with any surety, but the sources consistently describe it as a massive and bloody engagement even within the context of warfare in the Middle Ages.

Muslim tradition records that Abraham lived with Isaac but frequently visited Ishmael in Arabia, context between the family as a whole is suggested even in the Biblical tradition particularly in Abraham's funeral in Genesis 25: 8-9.

Berossus ( early third century BCE ) provides context for the account in that he records the introduction of idols of Anahita under Artaxerxes II Mnemon throughout the Persian Empire.

In the context of the Classical Greek myth of Theseus, the labyrinth of Greek mythology is frequently associated with the Minoan palace of Knossos and has a long tradition of use that extends before any written records explain the traditions.

Shakespearean scholars, beginning with Edmond Malone in 1790, have attempted to reconstruct the plays ' relative chronology by various means, primarily using external evidence ( references by contemporary commentators and in private documents, allusions in other plays, entries in the Stationers ' Register, and records of performance and publication ), and internal evidence ( allusions to contemporary events, composition and publication dates of sources used by Shakespeare, the development of his style and diction over time, and the plays ' context in the contemporary theatrical and literary milieu ).

The first written evidence of the usage of " caboose " in a railroad context appeared in 1859 ( not 1861, as cited by the Online Etymology Dictionary ), as part of court records in conjunction with a lawsuit filed against the New York and Harlem Railway.

The language is attested in cuneiform, in records from the 16th ( Anitta text ) down to the 13th century BC, with isolated Hittite loanwords and numerous personal names appearing in an Old Assyrian context from as early as the 20th century BC.

They must rely on more speculation to fill in evidence gaps than would be acceptable in another context that provided more rigorous verifiability of the records available.

Objects that can only be theorised as being deposited together, either because they were not excavated properly, their excavation records are lost or because they come from different contexts that are in stratigraphically definable phases or groups in association with the original context, are said to be in open association.

However it is important to note in this context that a considerable proportion of the rebetiko repertoire on Greek records until 1936 was not dramatically different, except in terms of language and musical " dialect ", from Smyrneika or Ottoman café music ( played by musicians of various ethnic backgrounds ).

It is more difficult to ensure that the content, context and structure of records is preserved and protected when the records do not have a physical existence.

Although Jones had not coined the term-the Oxford English Dictionary records the year of its first use as 1846 ' - he was the first to employ it in the context of psychoanalysis: ' No one will admit that he ever deliberately performed an irrational act, and any act that might appear so is immediately justified by ... providing a false explanation that has a plausible ring of rationality '.

The official records of the trials are limited to formal accusations, sentences, and so forth ; the documents to which historians look for context and detail are those written by the accused.

He may be the Nabû-kudurrī-uṣur who is mentioned in the Chronicle of Market Prices which records his ninth year but the context is lost.

In this context, the publications of Jamal ad-din al-Afghani ( 1837 – 97 ), Muhammad Abduh ( 1849 – 1905 ) and Rashid Rida ( 1865 – 1935 ) preached Islamic alternatives to the political, economic, and cultural decline of the empire.

According to Professor William Montgomery Watt, when seen in such historical context, Muhammad " can be seen as a figure who testified on behalf of women ’ s rights.

The hadith ( recordings of deeds and sayings attributed to Muhammad ) use both the terms Banu Israil and Yahud in relation to Jews, the latter term becoming ever more frequent and appearing mostly in negative context.

Within this context, the character of Muhammad could be seen as a manufactured myth created to provide the Arab tribes with their own Arab version of the Judeo-Christian prophets.

Second, one needs to examine it in the context of the life of Prophet Muhammad and see what is happening to him, what is the event or the circumstances on which the Qur ’ an is commenting.

The context seems to indicate this interpretation as well, as verses 3-6 specifically address Muhammad.

" Hence, his first book was a study of Muhammad (" Muhammad ", 1960 ), setting the Prophet in his social context.

How far hadith contributes to sunnah is disputed and highly dependent on context.

The set of all binomial distributions is called the family of binomial distributions, but in general discussions this expression is often shortened to `` the binomial distribution '', or even `` the binomial '' when the context is clear.

Thus the films seen as they came in ( coordinated for the regular sections ), were often out of context.

Power analysis is often applied in the context of ANOVA in order to assess the probability of successfully rejecting the null hypothesis if we assume a certain ANOVA design, effect size in the population, sample size and significance level.

The context in which an ambiguous word is used often makes it evident which of the meanings is intended.

This is often the case, for example, with idiomatic expressions whose definitions are rarely or never well-defined, and are presented in the context of a larger argument that invites a conclusion.

As with many scientific fields, strict delineation can be highly contrived and atomic physics is often considered in the wider context of atomic, molecular, and optical physics.

The term is often used in the entertainment business, especially in a business context, for musicians and other performers ( less often for actors ).

Most often, the term describes those who create within a context of the fine arts or ' high culture ', activities such as drawing, painting, sculpture, acting, dancing, writing, filmmaking, photography, and music — people who use imagination, talent, or skill to create works that may be judged to have an aesthetic value.

Braudel developed the idea, often associated with Annalistes, of different modes of historical time: l ' histoire quasi immobile ( motionless history ) of historical geography, the history of social, political and economic structures ( la longue durée ), and the history of men and events, in the context of their structures.

In Brazil, a number of modern religious movements based on the use of ayahuasca have emerged, the most famous of them being Santo Daime and the União do Vegetal ( or UDV ), usually in an animistic context that may be shamanistic or, more often ( as with Santo Daime and the UDV ), integrated with Christianity.

As in so many programming languages, the operation ( V, x ) is often written V ← x ( or some similar notation ), and ( V ) is implied whenever a variable V is used in a context where a value is required.

The terms " base " and " alkali " are often used interchangeably, particularly outside of a scientific context.

* Basis point, 0. 01 %, often used in the context of interest rates

Large fixed-blade utility knives are most often employed in an outdoors context, such as fishing, camping, or hunting.

Although it's increasingly common for couples – particularly younger couples – to have " power neutral " relationships and / or play styles, activities and relationships within a BDSM context are often characterized by the participants ' taking on complementary, but unequal roles ; thus, the idea of informed consent of both the partners becomes essential.

In the context of the Indo-Aryan languages ( e. g. Sanskrit and Hindi ) and comparative Indo-European studies, breathy-voiced consonants are often called voiced aspirated, as in e. g. the Hindi and Sanskrit stops normally denoted bh, dh, ḍh, jh, and gh and the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European phoneme gʷh.

In antiquity, Greek reports of cannibalism, ( often called anthropophagy in this context ) were related to distant non-Hellenic barbarians, or else relegated in Greek mythology to the ' primitive ' chthonic world that preceded the coming of the Olympian gods: see the explicit rejection of human sacrifice in the cannibal feast prepared for the Olympians by Tantalus of his son Pelops.

Elaborations of tribal arbitration of feuds included peace settlements often done in a religious context and compensation system.

In recent usage, especially in the context of environmental policy, the term " climate change " often refers only to changes in modern climate, including the rise in average surface temperature known as global warming.

The current-carrying electrons in the conduction band are known as " free electrons ", although they are often simply called " electrons " if context allows this usage to be clear.

The concept of context-sensitive grammar was introduced by Noam Chomsky in the 1950s as a way to describe the syntax of natural language where it is indeed often the case that a word may or may not be appropriate in a certain place depending upon the context.

Many Canadian editors, though, use the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, often along with the chapter on spelling in Editing Canadian English, and, where necessary ( depending on context ), one or more other references.

Whether the large or small calorie is intended often must be inferred from context.

The kernel does not spawn or schedule a special process to handle interrupts, but instead the handler executes in the ( often partial ) context established at the beginning of interrupt handling.