Iconic Reflections

Author : Jeffrey Stoker
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781984555526

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Iconic Reflections by Jeffrey Stoker Pdf

Peter Placket dreams of being a hero. Like most heroes, he’s handsome, charismatic, and intelligent. Also he works at a fire station, the perfect venue for showcasing his bravery. There’s just one small problem: he’s made out of paper. How can Peter be heroic when the fire chief forbids him to get within ten yards of fires? The answer comes one day when the lower classes revolt against the aristocracy, turning the Apple Kingdom, Peter’s home, into a war zone. Realizing that someone must put an end to the violence, Peter flees to the countryside, searching for an ancient magical object that renders its user all-powerful. It’s a grand, sweeping journey, during which Peter will find both allies and adversaries, witness bizarre, deadly magic, attempt to cross an uncrossable sea, and visit an island that technically doesn’t exist. Ultimately, the magical object he seeks may do more than end the revolution—it may provide the answer to a mystery as old as time!

Author : Doris Bachmann-Medick
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110403077

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Cultural Turns by Doris Bachmann-Medick Pdf

This book provides a comprehensive overview of cultural turns - groundbreaking theoretical reorientations in the study of culture, the humanities and the social sciences. It features chapters on the interpretive, performative, reflexive, postcolonial, translational, spatial and iconic turns while introducing emerging developments. This translation of a revised German classic is the first synthesis of cultural turns in the English-speaking world.

Author : Nurit Levy
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027267399

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Textplicating Iconophones by Nurit Levy Pdf

This volume applies a sign-oriented approach to the description of articulatory and acoustic iconic phenomena in James Joyce’s Ulysses. In its hypothesis, the greater the role of sensory experience in the message of a text, the more likely it is to employ linguistic representation in articulated sounds iconically to affect sensory experience. Ulysses is presented as a work of art whose emphasis on sensual impression and sensory experience is reflected in the composition and distribution of its phonemes. Four English phonemes are examined, each in several contexts in Ulysses. A systematic association of resemblance is found between the manner and effort involved in the articulation of each phoneme relative to other phonemes and sounds, and the manner in which semantic content is arranged in the scenes and themes of the book. The different emphases of semantic arrangement associated with each of the examined phonemes are maintained across diverse themes, varied scopes of reference and opposed manners of contextualization. The phonological unit is therefore perceived to carry a semantic impact to complement its differentiating role in linguistic signification. It also offers an innovative approach to Ulysses and exposes new semantic nuances in its narration and characterization techniques.

Author : James Washington Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Books
ISBN : 1845539850

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Iconic Books and Texts by James Washington Watts Pdf

This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions.

Author : Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789027207821

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Grammar, Meaning and Pragmatics by Frank Brisard,Jan-Ola Östman,Jef Verschueren Pdf

The ten volumes of "Handbook of Pragmatics Highlights" focus on the most salient topics in the field of pragmatics, thus dividing its wide interdisciplinary spectrum in a transparent and manageable way. While other volumes select philosophical, cognitive, cultural, social, variational, interactional, or discursive points of view, this fifth volume looks at the field of linguistic pragmatics from a primarily grammatical angle. That is, it asks in which particular sense a variety of older and more recent functional (rather than generative) models of grammar relate to the study of language in use: how this affects their general outlook on language structure, whether issues of language use inform the very makeup of these models or are merely included as possible research themes, and how far the actual integration of pragmatics ultimately goes (is it a module/layer or is the model truly usage-based ?). Each of the authors presenting these models has taken systematic care to highlight the relevant problems and focus on the implications of considering pragmatic phenomena from the point of view of grammar. Furthermore, a limited number of chapters deal with traditional topics in the grammatical literature, and specifically those which are called pragmatic because they either are not strictly concerned with truth (semantics), or receive their (truth) value only from an interaction with context. In the introduction, these theories and topics are set up against the historical background of a gradually changing attitude, on the part of grammarians, towards questions of linguistic knowledge and behavior, and the role of learning in their relationship."

Author : David M. Carballo,Marc Levine
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781607323013

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Obsidian Reflections by David M. Carballo,Marc Levine Pdf

Departing from the political economy perspective taken by the vast majority of volumes devoted to Mesoamerican obsidian, Obsidian Reflections is an examination of obsidian's sociocultural dimensions—particularly in regard to Mesoamerican world view, religion, and belief systems. Exploring the materiality of this volcanic glass rather than only its functionality, this book considers the interplay among people, obsidian, and meaning and how these relationships shaped patterns of procurement, exchange, and use. An international group of scholars hailing from Belize, France, Japan, Mexico, and the United States provides a variety of case studies from Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras. The authors draw on archaeological, iconographic, ethnographic, and ethnohistoric data to examine obsidian as a touchstone for cultural meaning, including references to sacrificial precepts, powerful deities, landscape, warfare, social relations, and fertility. Obsidian Reflections underscores the necessity of understanding obsidian from within its cultural context—the perspective of the indigenous people of Mesoamerica. It will be of great interest to Mesoamericanists as well as students and scholars of lithic studies and material culture.

Author : Tiziana Andina,Erica Onnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350019409

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The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi by Tiziana Andina,Erica Onnis Pdf

Wang Guangyi, one of the stars of the new wave of Chinese art, has artistically addressed major philosophical trends in Western philosophy while drawing on Taoism, Marxism and Maoism. By bringing together a team of experts in the philosophy of art to discuss his work, The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi presents the first philosophical exploration of Wang's art, his thought and his analysis of Chinese society. From his use of words in images to his reference to the classics of Western painting, contributors set Wang's work against key questions in contemporary art. As well as answering what makes the language of pop art successful, they examine whether art and its history have come to an end, as Hegel posited, and if it is possible or even necessary to rework a new narrative for the history of contemporary art. The Philosophy and Art of Wang Guangyi marks an important contribution to understanding the background, work and ideas of a 21st-century political artist outside the West.

Author : J. Arch Getty,Lewis H. Siegelbaum
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501775567

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Reflections on Stalinism by J. Arch Getty,Lewis H. Siegelbaum Pdf

Reflections on Stalinism distills decades of historical thought and research, bringing together twelve senior scholars of Soviet history who began their careers during the Cold War to examine their views of Stalinism. They present insights into the role of personality in statecraft, the social underpinnings of dictatorship and state terrorism, historians' attachments to their subjects, historical causality, the applicability of Marxist categories to Soviet history, the relationship of Soviet history to post-Soviet Russia, and more. Essays address the transformation of a peasant country into a superpower and the causes and scale of domestic bloodshed. Reflections on Stalinism ultimately tackles an age-old question: Do powerful people make history or are they the product of it?

Author : Susan M. Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3039108808

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Business and Official Correspondence by Susan M. Fitzmaurice Pdf

This volume focuses on the nature of official correspondence produced in the period after 1500, from Early Modern to nineteenth-century English. The contributions reflect the extent to which the genre is somewhat plastic in this period, gradually acquiring distinguishing conventions and protocols as the situations in which the letters themselves are encoded acquire more distinctiveness. Although correspondence has long been the object of diachronic studies, very little seems to be available as far as specialized usage is concerned, hence the specific interest in letters exchanged within scientific, diplomatic, and business networks. In addition, the study of business and official correspondence offered here profits from a multi-disciplinary and multi-methodological approach, as it relies on a rich array of databases and corpora of correspondence, ranging from highly specialized collections to more broadly constructed diagnostic corpora, in which correspondence is just one register or text-type. While specific attention is paid to phenomena relating to the expression of positive and negative politeness through the investigation of authentic (rather than constructed) texts, methodological issues are also taken into consideration.

Author : Various
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 15061 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136158322

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Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics by Various Pdf

Routledge Library Editions: Linguistics brings together as one set, mini-sets, or individual volumes, a series of previously out-of-print classics from a variety of academic imprints. With titles ranging from Applied Linguistics and Language Learning to Experimental Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics Today: International Perspectives, this set provides in one place a wealth of important reference sources from a wide range of authors expert in the field.

Author : Sarah De Nardi,Hilary Orange,Steven High,Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429631641

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The Routledge Handbook of Memory and Place by Sarah De Nardi,Hilary Orange,Steven High,Eerika Koskinen-Koivisto Pdf

This Handbook explores the latest cross-disciplinary research on the inter-relationship between memory studies, place, and identity. In the works of dynamic memory, there is room for multiple stories, versions of the past and place understandings, and often resistance to mainstream narratives. Places may live on long after their physical destruction. This collection provides insights into the significant and diverse role memory plays in our understanding of the world around us, in a variety of spaces and temporalities, and through a variety of disciplinary and professional lenses. Many of the chapters in this Handbook explore place-making, its significance in everyday lives, and its loss. Processes of displacement, where people’s place attachments are violently torn asunder, are also considered. Ranging from oral history to forensic anthropology, from folklore studies to cultural geographies and beyond, the chapters in this Handbook reveal multiple and often unexpected facets of the fascinating relationship between place and memory, from the individual to the collective. This is a multi- and intra-disciplinary collection of the latest, most influential approaches to the interwoven and dynamic issues of place and memory. It will be of great use to researchers and academics working across Geography, Tourism, Heritage, Anthropology, Memory Studies, and Archaeology.

Author : Ralph Buck,Barbara Snook,Debarshi Prasad Nath
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000901481

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Reflections of Dance along the Brahmaputra by Ralph Buck,Barbara Snook,Debarshi Prasad Nath Pdf

This volume brings a critical lens to dance and culture within North East India. Through case studies, first-hand accounts, and interviews, it explores unique folk dances of Indigenous communities of North East India that reflect diverse journeys, lifestyles, and connections within their ethnic groups, marking almost every ritual and festival. Dance for people of North East India, as elsewhere, is also a way of declaring, establishing, celebrating, and asserting humans' relationship with nature. The book draws attention to the origins and special circumstances of dances from North East India. It discusses a range of important folk-dance forms alongside classical dance forms in North East India, with a focus on Sattriya dance. The chapters examine how these dance forms play an important role in the region’s socio-cultural, economic, and political life, intertwining religion and the arts through music, dance, and drama. Further, they also explore how folk dance cultures in North East India have never been relegated to the background, never considered secondary, aesthetically, or otherwise, but have become expressions of political and cultural identity. An evocative work, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of pedagogy, choreography, community dance practice, theatre and performance studies, social and cultural studies, aesthetics, interdisciplinary arts, and more. It will be an invaluable resource for artists and practitioners working in dance schools and communities.

Author : Talib S. Hussain,Susan L. Coleman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107051744

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Design and Development of Training Games by Talib S. Hussain,Susan L. Coleman Pdf

Leaders in the field of serious games share practical guidelines and lessons learned from researching and developing learning games.

Author : Andrew M. Fearnley,Daniel Matlin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231544801

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Race Capital? by Andrew M. Fearnley,Daniel Matlin Pdf

For close to a century, Harlem has been the iconic black neighborhood widely seen as the heart of African American life and culture, both celebrated as the vanguard of black self-determination and lamented as the face of segregation. But with Harlem’s demographic, physical, and commercial landscapes rapidly changing, the neighborhood’s status as a setting and symbol of black political and cultural life looks uncertain. As debate swirls around Harlem’s present and future, Race Capital? revisits a century of the area’s history, culture, and imagery, exploring how and why it achieved its distinctiveness and significance and offering new accounts of Harlem’s evolving symbolic power. In this book, leading scholars consider crucial aspects of Harlem’s social, political, and intellectual history; its artistic, cultural, and economic life; and its representation across an array of media and genres. Together they reveal a community at once local and transnational, coalescing and conflicted; one that articulated new visions of a cosmopolitan black modernity while clashing over distinctions of ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality. Topics explored include Harlem as a literary phenomenon; recent critiques of Harlem exceptionalism; gambling and black business history; the neighborhood’s transnational character; its importance in the black freedom struggle; black queer spaces; and public policy and neighborhood change in historical context. Spanning a century, from the emergence of the Harlem Renaissance to present-day controversies over gentrification, Race Capital? models new Harlem scholarship that interrogates exceptionalism while taking seriously the importance of place and locality, offering vistas onto new directions for African American and diasporic studies.

Author : Saša Srećković
Publisher : Etnografski muzej u Beogradu
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-13
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : 9788678911033

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26th International Festival of Ethnological Film, 10-14 October 2017, Belgrade by Saša Srećković Pdf