https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/32063 2026-04-25T12:45:47Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23710 Title: Hyphen : Volume 4, Number 2 Editors: Mallia-Milanes, Victor; Scerri, Louis J.; Zammit Ciantar, Joe; Caruana Carabez, Charles Abstract: Hyphen, Volume 4, No. 2 (1984) 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23527 Title: Linji godda : kummentarji Abstract: Il-bniedem żviluppa kuxjenza li tagħraf illi ż-Żmien huwa biss dimensjoni ta' eżistenza mill-iktar misterjuża u li dan joħloq l-isfond .tal-metafiżika, i.e. ir-relazzjoni tal-Bniedem maż-Żmien, mal-Kożmos, ma' I-Esseri Divin, ma' I-Astratt. Il-kuxjenza tal-bniedem modern saret waħda aktar "xjentifika", u dan il-fenomenu, minħabba edukazzjoni u riċerki aktar assidwi, intebħu bih ukoll il-poeti moderni Maltin. Ġiet skoperta r-rabta bejn il-poeżija u x-xjenza, izda l-moħħ kreattiv baqa' f'konflitt mal-misteru tremend tat-traxxendenza. Inbdiet tellieqa tal-moħħ maż-Żmien: I-artist modern, il-poeta kontemporanju, beda ġirja nervuża biex ifittex xi sens fl-eżistenza (relattivament qasira ħafna) tiegħu fid-dinja, jew imqar fl-univers. Il-kriżi nħolqot sewwasew għaliex il-possibiltajiet ta' moħħ il-poeta jinfirxu ferm aktar 'il bogħod mill-medja tal-limitazzjoni mundana tal-għajxien tal-bniedem. Il-poeta jaf li bejn I-eżistenza materjali u I-eżistenza spiritwali hemm qasma tremenda; hemm kontradizzjoni bejn dak li huwa fiżiku u dak li huwa idealizzat; bejn dak li huwa reali u dak li huwa tant misterjuż. Għalhekk hemm ħarba kbira, tellieqa dinamika, enerġija tremenda fil-moħħ kreattiv biex ikun "sfidat" I-element taż-Żmien. L-unika rassenjazzjoni għall-bniedem kreattiv hija li jista' jipprova jagħti sens metafiżiku lid-dettalji komuni. Issa dan is-sens metafiżiku lill-oġġetti jrid jinbeda kemm-il darba tinbidel il-kuxjenza tal-Jien. Il-poeta jipprova jfittex Jien li jassorbi I-misteri tar-relazzjoni bejn dak li huwa transitorju (Ii jgħaddi, li jinbidel, li jmut) u dak li huwa Etern. Minn xi daqqiet, il-moħħ kreattiv jaċċetta telfa, għaliex mill-għerien profondi tal-Jien ma tasal I-ebda konklużjoni fissa dwar il-misteru ta' I-Eżistenza. Il-poeziji f'din it-taqsima jeħtieg Ii jkunu nkwadrati fuq dan I-isfond, li jieħu dimensjoni usa' jekk il-qarrej jirrelata dawn il-poeziji mat-teoriji ta' Darwin u Einstein. 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23526 Title: A question of the alphabet Abstract: The lack of an accepted Maltese alphabet and a standard orthography created serious difficulties and hindered progress. So when in 1920 I-Għaqda tal-Kittieba tal-Malti was founded it took this matter in hand and gave it prime importance. On November 14 of that same year it appointed a Commission to study and devise the Maltese alphabet. This was one of the very first activities of the Għaqda. The Commission's proposed draft of the alphabet was discussed at a gerieral meeting held on 18 November 1921. It was approved and four days later the Secretary of the Għaqda, F.S. Caruana, enclosed a specimen of the alphabet to the Head of the Ministry, Joseph Howard and, requesting the co-operation of Government, he proposed that this alphabet be adopted in all Maltese publications. 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/23501 Title: Burials in Maltese churches : 1419-1530s Abstract: The report made in 1575 by Pietro Dusina, the Apostolic Visitor to the Maltese Diocese charged with the task of rooting out a number of abuses and defects, might suggest that the private ownership of graves in the Maltese churches, so common a phenomenon until burial in churches stopped in the course of the last century, had not started before the year 1575. In fact, Dusina reported several times that the de ad were buried in earth instead of in proper graves. Even for the cathedral at Mdina he had to leave instructions for this "impiety" to stop. However, ample evidence survives in other sources to show that some graves existed much before 1575 and were also owned privately and used as family graves despite the custom of burial in common earth. 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z