But the historian of literature need not confine his attention to biography or to stylistic questions of form, `` texture '', or technique.

While many foods can be eaten raw, many also undergo some form of preparation for reasons of safety, palatability, texture, or flavor.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

All insects in the Pterygota undergo a marked change in form, texture and physical appearance or metamorphosis, from immature to adult.

Functions for sclereid cells ( hard cells that give leaves or fruits a gritty texture ) include discouraging herbivory, by damaging digestive passages in small insect larval stages, and physical protection ( a solid tissue of hard sclereid cells form the pit wall in a peach and many other fruits ).

First seen in F-Zero, Mode 7 is a form of texture mapping available on the SNES which allows a plane to be rotated and scaled freely, achieving a pseudo three-dimensional appearance.

Although Unreal is not the first major release with colored lighting ( see Quake II ), it is the first to have a software renderer as feature rich as the hardware renderers of the time, including colored lighting and even a limited form of texture filtering referred to by Tim Sweeney as an ordered " texture coordinate space " dither.

It comes in the form of flakes, or as a yellow powder similar in texture to cornmeal, and can be found in the bulk aisle of most natural food stores.

In the United Kingdom, espresso coffee initially gained popularity in the form of the cappuccino, due to the British custom of drinking coffee with milk, the desire for a longer drink so the café may serve as a destination, and the exotic texture of the beverage.

Similarly, crystal texture and form within pegmatitic rock may be taken to extreme size and perfection.

Basalt with a vesicular or frothy texture is called scoria, and forms when dissolved gases are forced out of solution and form vesicles as the lava decompresses as it reaches the surface.

Occasionally, as in the purple slates of North Wales, ferrous reduction spheres form around iron nuclei, leaving a light green spotted texture.

The size, form and orientation of clasts or minerals in a rock is called its texture.

These included Tango Suite for the virtuoso guitar duo Sergio and Odair Assad ; Histoire du Tango, where a flutist and guitarist tell the history of tango in four chunks of music styled at thirty-year intervals ; and La Camorra, a suite in three ten minute movements, inspired by the Neapolitan crime family and exploring symphonic concepts of large-scale form, thematic development, contrasts of texture and massive accumulations of ensemble sound.

As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruiting body that is often of a distinctive color and texture.

In a grand sense, music theory distils and analyzes the fundamental parameters or elements of music — rhythm, harmony ( harmonic function ), melody, structure, form, texture, etc.

These include but are not limited to: pitch, beat or pulse, rhythm, melody, harmony, texture, allocation of voices, timbre or color, expressive qualities ( dynamics and articulation ), and form or structure.

Environment mapping is a form of texture mapping in which the texture coordinates are view-dependent.

Bump mapping is another form of texture mapping which does not provide pixels with color, but rather with depth.

Inspired by classic painting in the European tradition, exemplified by the works of Rembrandt, Chardin and Courbet, Soutine developed an individual style more concerned with shape, color, and texture over representation, which served as a bridge between more traditional approaches and the developing form of Abstract Expressionism.

Rhapsodies often incorporate passages of an improvisatory nature ( although written out in a score ), and are irregular in form, with heightened contrasts and emotional exuberance ; Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue is typical in that it certainly has large contrasts in musical texture, style, and color.

The raw flesh has a crisp texture and a pungent, peppery flavor, caused by glucosinolates and the enzyme myrosinase which combine when chewed to form allyl isothiocyanates, also present in mustard, horseradish, and wasabi.

Lyrical and almost epigrammatic in form, the poems ' wistful evocation of doomed youth in the English countryside, in spare language and distinctive imagery, appealed strongly to late Victorian and Edwardian taste, and to many early 20th century English composers ( beginning with Arthur Somervell ) both before and after the First World War.

Contemporary hypnotism makes use of a wide variety of different forms of suggestion including: direct verbal suggestions, " indirect " verbal suggestions such as requests or insinuations, metaphors and other rhetorical figures of speech, and non-verbal suggestion in the form of mental imagery, voice tonality, and physical manipulation.

Sonnets are particularly associated with love poetry, and often use a poetic diction heavily based on vivid imagery, but the twists and turns associated with the move from octave to sestet and to final couplet make them a useful and dynamic form for many subjects.

" In its fully developed form, his central cult imagery shows his triumphant, disorderly arrival or return, as if from some place beyond the borders of the known and civilized.

:" In its original form, Gee's work is intricate and tactile, and while the imagery is sometimes almost overwhelming, the primary concerns are those of a painter ; dealing with form and space.

Hailed by both critics and fans as one of his best albums, it was praised as " a superb new album which sees a return to the form he showed to full effect on those classics like ' Only Visiting This Planet ' and ' So Long Ago the Garden ' back in the mid seventies " with 13 new " songs are cleverly arranged and produced, with plenty of pertinent lyrical imagery and the sly wit of yore amongst the electric guitar solos and breezy ( sampled?

After the Viking invasions, the settled Norse population of the Danelaw adopted the form, and a number of crosses combine Christian imagery with pagan Norse myths, which the Church seems to have tolerated, and adopted at least as metaphors for the period when conversion was bedding down.

He was capable of arresting imagery and memorable statements in the form of terse epigrams.

Local national traditions as well as individual settings therefore could stand side by side, and from the very beginning a broad variety of artists practicing some kind of symbolic imagery, ranged between extreme positions: The Nabis for example united to find synthesis of tradition and brand new form, while others kept to traditional, more or less academic forms, when they were looking for fresh contents: Symbolism is therefore often linked to fanatastic, esoteric, erotic and other non-realist subject matter.

For example, the aesthetic life view is written in short essay form, with poetic imagery and allusions, discussing aesthetic topics such as music, seduction, drama, and beauty.

Broken, fragmented and seemingly unrelated slices of imagery come together to form a disjunctive anti-narrative.

: Evidence: Stylistic tests place the composition of the play after Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra, and the form of the verse and imagery fit well with Timon, Antony, and Pericles.

Writing for the journal Neurotica in 1951, Dr. Rudolph Friedmann studied the stories so intensely for analytic psychosexual imagery that Dwight Macdonald was moved to include the essay in his 1960 anthology of parodies as a sincere but inadvertent example of the form.

The discussion was based on intensive readings and included considerations of a poem ’ s form, structure, meter, rhyme scheme, and imagery ( Singh 1991 ).

* The fourth step, mental imagery of letters and human forms: the mystic imagines a human form, and himself without a body.

An entire staff of Swedish politicians, artists, poets and scholars were engaged in creating an image of the king as an instrument of God and a personification of the apocalyptic " Lion of the North ", a form of symbolic imagery first introduced for Gustav II Adolf.

As contemporary researchers use the expression, mental images ( or mental imagery ) can occur in the form of any sense, so that we may experience auditory images, olfactory images, and so forth.

Some have gone so far as to suggest that images are best understood to be, by definition, a form of inner, mental or neural representation ; in the case of hypnagogic and hypnapompic imagery, it is not representational at all.

Subsequent neuroimaging studies showed that the interference between the motor and visual imagery system could be induced by having participants physically handle actual 3D blocks glued together to form objects similar to those depicted in the line-drawings.

Such imagery comes from books, magazines, television, cinema, and, above all, advertising that can directly impact the landscape ( in the form of posters and billboards ) and also subtly influence, through persuasive techniques and an increasingly pervasive presence, the way that people perceive reality.

Dream art is any form of art directly based on material from dreams, or which employs dream-like imagery.

Using nightmarish imagery, this was an allegory centered on seven shipwrecked people, each doomed to die, each seeking a form of salvation.

It dwells on the limitations of the traditional ghazal, and points to what he considered the hollowness of its hackneyed themes and imagery, especially when the form is handled by other poets and versifiers.