Definition: Serialism is a rigorous system of composing music in which various elements of the piece are ordered according to a pre-determined ordered set or sets, and variations on them. The elements thus controlled may be the pitch of the notes, their length, their dynamics, their accents, or virtually any other musical quantity, which, in serial terms is called a parameter. More generally, serialism is any music which uses any ordered sets applied to any musical element. Whilst researching serialism
downhill into dull meaninglessness, her inward life climbs with increasing intensity toward a climax of desperation and hysteria" (Joselyn 450). The intensity, "a passionate restlessness," forces Alice to realize that she "could not be cheated by phantasie" and must face the bitter truth about life (Anderson 118). She sheds her clothes as if they were her lost dreams and erroneous ideas and runs naked outside. Her exposed, naked body is a symbol of her openness for the truth. This vulnerability leads
This paper critically examines Sartre's treatment of the problem of alterity in his early works, arguing that his first philosophical work, The Transcendence of the Ego, presents an unsatisfactory account of alterity. The paper proposes that Sartre's study of imagination offers opportunities to re-examine the question of alterity and arrive at a more adequate formulation of the self's relation to the other. The paper begins by demonstrating that The Transcendence of the Ego perpetuates the Cartesian