OAR@UM Collection:https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/293252024-03-28T11:43:02Z2024-03-28T11:43:02ZEditorialhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/283202018-03-27T01:33:06Z1983-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Editorial
Editors: Gulia, Wallace Ph.
Abstract: The editor is putting forward two conclusions as to why the Journal of Maltese Studies is so important. The Journal claims to be a significant point of reference to all scholars who are interested in Mediterranean studies, and particularly in the knowledge of minority group cultures.1983-01-01T00:00:00ZProblematica foscoliana e superamento Cristiano in Dun Karmhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/283192018-03-27T01:33:12Z1983-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Problematica foscoliana e superamento Cristiano in Dun Karm
Abstract: Carmelo Psaila (1871-1961), aka Dun Karm, as is popularly known, and the important figure of all Maltese literature, and perhaps the most significant reference point of the whole European culture of Malta. Recognized by everyone as the national poet, Dun Karm has become the emblem of distinctive qualities of the island. His poetic activity constitutes the moment of better aesthetic flowering in the Mauritian language. Fully aware of the Italian tradition in Malta, and after having entered with commitment and competently as a poet in the Italian language of mold neoclassical, he gradually began to land steadily towards the literary and spiritual condition of romance, up to that in 1912, while not making any break from his previous experience, he devoted himself to poetry in Maltese. His moment of maximum maturation is characterized by his Foscolian experience. After translating the Sepulchres into Maltese, the poet was committed to composing a long poem, defined by himself the epilogue of the Italian poem and today
considered by Maltese critics as the most valid poetic work in Maltese language.1983-01-01T00:00:00ZMaltese children's rhymes and poetryhttps://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/279892018-03-17T02:30:11Z1983-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: Maltese children's rhymes and poetry
Abstract: The songs and ditties falling under the heading 'Children's Rhymes' immediately conjure up recollections of our earliest existence and childhood activities, of games and emotions long since forgotten. There is a considerable Maltese material which can be grouped under the heading Children's Rhymes, whether of the nursery type or not. However, owing to social pressures and to a mistaken sense of prestige values equating higher status with 'Englishness' in speech and manners, many Maltese parents generally tend to discard the words and jingles in which they were themselves brought up in favour of English rhymes that are in reality alien to the Maltese tradition. Matters are not made any better in the schools, where Maltese rhymes do not figure in the organized play activities of the pupils. As verses learnt in early childhood are not usually passed on again until the little listeners have grown up, and have children of their own, what may well happen is a complete break in the process of transmission which, in some thirty years time, might result in the disappearance of a good part of our traditional nursery lore, and consequently in the loss or distortion of our national identity. The article also contains a list of children's rhymes in Maltese, then translated in English.1983-01-01T00:00:00ZThe Pope considers seeking asylum in Malta, 1881-1889https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/279882018-03-17T02:30:17Z1983-01-01T00:00:00ZTitle: The Pope considers seeking asylum in Malta, 1881-1889
Abstract: On more than one occasion, about a hundred years ago, the Pope considered coming to Malta. Not, as has become routine practice today, to fulfill a pastoral duty or to assert the influence of the Church in some disturbed region of the world. Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903) considered abandoning Rome altogether and taking up residence in Malta, and presumably setting up in these islands the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church.1983-01-01T00:00:00Z