Body Of Text

Author : Marion Holmes Katz
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791488577

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Body of Text by Marion Holmes Katz Pdf

Ritual purity is one of the least understood aspects of Islamic law and practice, yet it enjoys a prominent place in traditional legal texts and permeates the daily life of ordinary believers. Body of Text examines the emergence and crystallization of the law of ritual purity, using early sources to reconstruct the formative debates among Muslim scholars. The lively interaction among legal theorizing, caliphal politics, and popular practice illustrates the formation of the law, because as scholars strove for synthesis, they advanced competing understandings of the underlying structure and meaning of ritual purity. Katz demonstrates that no single theory can adequately interpret the diversity of opinion within the tradition.

Author : M. Sawicki
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401139793

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Body, Text, and Science by M. Sawicki Pdf

What is "scientific" about the natural and human sciences? Precisely this: the legibility of our worlds and the distinctive reading strategies that they provoke. That account of the essence of science comes from Edith Stein, who as HusserI's assistant 1916-1918 labored in vain to bring his massive Ideen to publication, and then went on to propose her own solution to the problem of finding a unified foundation for the social and physical sciences. Stein argued that human bodily life itself affords direct access to the interplay of natural causality, cultural motivation, and personal initiative in history and technology. She developed this line of approach to the sciences in her early scholarly publications, which too soon were overshadowed by her religious lectures and writings, and eventually were obscured by National Socialism's ideological attack on philosophies of empathy. Today, as her church prepares to declare Stein a saint, her secular philosophical achievements deserve another look.

Author : Elissa Washuta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1597099694

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My Body is a Book of Rules by Elissa Washuta Pdf

In My Body Is a Book of Rules, Elissa Washuta corrals the synaptic gymnastics of her teeming bipolar brain, interweaving pop culture with neurobiology and memories of sexual trauma to tell the story of her fight to calm her aching mind and slip beyond the tormenting cycles of memory.

Author : Amelia Jones,Andrew Stephenson Nfa,Andrew Stephenson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134655939

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Performing the Body/Performing the Text by Amelia Jones,Andrew Stephenson Nfa,Andrew Stephenson Pdf

This book explores the new performativity in art theory and practice, examining ways of rethinking interpretive processes in visual culture. Since the 1960s, visual art practices - from body art to minimalism - have taken contemporary art outside the museum and gallery; by embracing theatricality and performance and exploding the boundaries set by traditional art criticism. The contributors argue that interpretation needs to be recognised as much more dynamic and contingent. Offering its own performance script, and embracing both canonical fine artists such as Manet, De Kooning and Jasper Johns, and performance artists such as Vito Acconci and Gunter Brus, this book offers radical re-readings of art works and points confidently towards new models for understanding art.

Author : Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766388

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Body and Text in the Eighteenth Century by Veronica Kelly,Dorothea von Mücke Pdf

Twelve scholars from the fields of English, French, and German literature here examine the complex ways in which the human body becomes the privileged semiotic model through which eighteenth-century culture defines its political and conceptual centers. In making clear that the deployment of the body varies tremendously depending on what is meant by the 'human body', the essays draw on popular literature, poetics and aesthetics, garden architecture, physiognomy, beauty manuals, pornography and philosophy, as well as on canonical works in the genres of the novel and the drama.

Author : David Ellingsen,Michael V. Smith
Publisher : Bookthug
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1897388284

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Body of Text by David Ellingsen,Michael V. Smith Pdf

Body of Text is a collection of concrete poems made by marrying poetry with body-based performance art and documentary photography. Dressed in a full black body-suit, Michael V. Smith is photographed by David Ellingsen in hundreds of poses which resemble Greco-Roman letters, Asian characters, hieroglyphs, or Rorschach inkblots. These are then arranged in book form, to a maximum of three images per page. In the same spirit of ï¿1/2moving beyond language' as heard in the sound poetry of Christian Bï¿1/2k, the poems in Body of Text occupy a liminal space between poetry and visual art. The body is made word, is made ï¿1/2site, ' ï¿1/2object' and ï¿1/2subject.' The body is symbol.

Author : David Callahan,Anthony Barker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030251895

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Body and Text: Cultural Transformations in New Media Environments by David Callahan,Anthony Barker Pdf

This book presents a collection of academic essays that take a fresh look at content and body transformation in the new media, highlighting how old hierarchies and canons of analysis must be revised. The movement of narratives and characterisations across forms, conventionally understood as adaptation, has commonly involved high-status classical forms (drama, epic, novel) being transformed into recorded and broadcast media (film, radio and television), or from the older recorded media to the newer ones. The advent of convergent digital platforms has further transformed hierarchies, and the formation of global conglomerates has created the commercial conditions for ever more lucrative exchanges between different media. Now source texts can move in any direction and take up any configuration, as emerging interacting fan bases drive innovation and new creative and commercial possibilities are deployed. Moreover, transformation may be not just a technology-driven creative practice and response, but at the very centre of the thematic worlds developed in those forms of story-telling which are currently popular: television series, video games, films and novels. The magic transformation of “your” money into “their” money is paralleled in contemporary media and culture by the centrality of transformation of one product to another as a media industry practice, as well as the transformation of bodies as a major theme both in the ensuing media products and in people’s identity practices in daily life.

Author : Anne Cranny-Francis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:875560244

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The Body in the Text by Anne Cranny-Francis Pdf

Author : Lizzy Rockwell
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780307793423

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The Busy Body Book by Lizzy Rockwell Pdf

A celebration of the amazing human machine and a life on the move! Your amazing body can jump, sprint, twist, and twirl. Your body is built to move. Lizzy Rockwell explains how your bones and muscles, heart and lungs, nerves and brain all work together to keep you on the go. Kids walk and skate and tumble through these pages with such exuberance that even sprouting couch potatoes will want to get up and bounce around—and that’s the ultimate goal. Studies show that American kids are becoming more sedentary and more overweight and that they carry these tendencies with them into adolescence and adulthood. Experts agree that we need to help kids make physical activity a life-long habit. Through education, information, and encouragement, this book aims to inspire a new generation of busy bodies!

Author : Angela Zito
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0226987299

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Of Body and Brush by Angela Zito Pdf

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how he moved, and how he performed the yearly Grand Sacrifices. OF BODY AND BRUSH shows how ritualizing power was produced jointly by the throne and the official literati who dictated the prescriptions. Illustrated.

Author : Richard C. Poulsen
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015037492793

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The Body as Text by Richard C. Poulsen Pdf

The Body as Text establishes the importance of cultural readings of the Body. Focusing on various bodies that cultures establish in their indigenous dialogues, the book moves through readings incorporated by/in classical witchcraft, Iron-age bog people of Northern Europe, and pornography.

Author : Mark Franko
Publisher : Oxford Studies in Dance Theory
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199794010

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Dance as Text by Mark Franko Pdf

This is a historical and theoretical examination of French baroque court ballet from approximately 1573 until 1670. Spanning the late Renaissance and the Baroque, it brings aesthetic and ideological criteria to bear on court ballet libretti, period accounts, contemporaneous performance theory, and related commentary on dance and movement in literature. It studies the formal choreographic apparatus that characterises late Valois and early Bourbon ballet spectacle and how its changing aesthetic ultimately reflected the political situation of the nobles who devised et performed court ballets.

Author : David Crownfield
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992-09-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438400112

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Body/Text in Julia Kristeva by David Crownfield Pdf

Julia Kristeva works at a crucial intersection of contemporary disciplines: psychoanalysis, linguistics, semiotics, literary criticism, feminism, postmodern philosophy, and religious studies. This volume examines this rich body of work and the ways in which its interdisciplinary style gives insight into problems in understanding religion. Special attention is given to two related themes: the understanding of woman in relation to religion and the role of mother (especially of mother's body) in the formation of self and of a religious discourse. Issues recurrent in the essays include the problem of ethics; the relation between discourse and the life of the body; the formation and sublimation of narcissism; the pre-Oedipal function of the father; the functions of fantasy, imagination, and art; the relation of religion to the negation of woman; and the possibility of positive and playful religion. The themes of the relation between the symbolic structures of language and a pre-symbolic semiotics of the infant body, of the split and decentered subject, and of the opposition between desire and Jouissance (ecstatic enjoyment) participate in organizing the discussion. Abjection and sacrifice in religion, the dynamics of Christian love and faith, the relation between the doctrine of the Virgin Mary and the experience of motherhood, and the question of feminism and its sometimes quasi-religious forms are also thematic.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Teacher Created Materials
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781480789838

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Leveled Texts--Understanding Your Body Text Set by Anonim Pdf

How does our body digest food? How are we able to move? This leveled text set has the answers and more about how our bodies work! Texts are written at four levels to differentiate instruction. Provided comprehension questions complement the texts.

Author : Melanie A Hanson
Publisher : ibidem-Verlag / ibidem Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783838256054

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Decapitation and Disgorgement. The Female Body's Text in Early Modern English Drama and Poetry by Melanie A Hanson Pdf

This book brings the ideas of French feminist Hélène Cixous to bear on a number of Early Modern English texts. The female characters of Mariam from Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam, Lavinia from William Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus as well as John Milton’s Eve in Paradise Lost and the poetic voice of Isabella Whitney are investigated through the application of Cixous’s theories of figurative decapitation and disgorgement. The author examines the creation of a unique discourse through the blending of what is stereotypically referred to as “female text” with “male discourse,” which results in what Cixous would call “bisexual discourse.”