https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32054 2026-04-05T00:03:17Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20477 Title: Hyphen : Volume 3, Number 2 Editors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Scerri, Louis J.; Zammit Ciantar, Joe; Caruana Carabez, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 3, No. 2 (1982) 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20476 Title: New directions in Maltese poetry Abstract: The title "New Directions in Maltese Poetry" leaves little room for satisfaction. A more accurate one, perhaps, would be: "New Thematics, Verse-Forms and Styles adopted by artists who use the Maltese Language as a verbal medium". I do not believe there is such a thing as Maltese poetry any more than there is English, Russian or Italian, though "language" is regularly exploited in the technical draft of written poetry. There is, in fact, only Poetry, one, universal and transcending the barriers of race and language. Poets are themselves the "mediums" that "plug us into" (or "tune us in" to) this aspect of the Universal Truth. Only because poets, as different from painters, sculptors, musicians, dancers, and other artists, use words as their means of self expression does the element of language(s) become an issue. This article also runs the gauntlet between the desire to comment on poems written by Maltese authors since the mid-sixties and the need for a sociological reading of the fundamental changes which have re-shaped Maltese society in these last decades and which, despite all "linear" programming both in political and literary manifestos, have led to divergent positions. A summary look at the preceding decades and at the schools of thought prevailing in them is also useful. Insofar as verses are a reflection of the society which produces them, this exercise is by necessity "allotropical". Description: Errata included with article 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20474 Title: An introduction to accountancy Abstract: Accountancy, owing to continuous developments in these last decades, has moved and is still moving away from its traditional basis of routine work such as record-keeping, preparation of final accounts, budgeting etc., towards a role which emphasizes its social importance. From the first description of double-entry book-keeping published in 1494 by Luca Pacioli, an Italian friar, accountancy has developed as a result of the growth of large-scale corporate enterprises, regulations by parliaments affecting accoutants and auditors, inclusion in the accountants' work of economic and mathematical ideas, scientific management, imposition of taxes on income and legal regulations obiliging companies to keep proper books of account and in certain cases to publish such accounts. 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/20460 Title: The first documented case of drug addiction in Malta : Samuel Taylor Coleridge Abstract: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) is one of the arresting figures in the English literary field of the first quarter of the 19th century. Today !he is remembered mainly for his critical writings on William Shakespeare and for his evocative 'Poem The Ancient Mariner though he also made a name, in his time, as a journalist and as a philosopher. As a human being he was weak-willed, over-sensitive to physical discomfort and to the psychological stresses of life, incapable of taking decisions and of sustained mental activity and unable to adjust to an unhappy domestic situation stemming from a frustrating marriage. He was particularly prone to recurrent phases of despondency and depression and dependent upon his friends, among whom were William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Charles and Mary Lamb, for his material and psychological support. At one period of his life he tried to escape from his chronic physical ailments and material circumstances by coming to Malta; in fact when he arrived in our island at the dawn of the 19th century, he was distressed by his tempestuous married life, harassed by debts and in the grip of opium addiction. It is from this aspect of addiction - and more particularly for the fact that he provides us with the first documented case of drug dependency in Malta - that I propose to deal with Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z