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Signs of the Americas

Edgar Garcia
Signs of the Americas Book PDF

Author : Edgar Garcia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226659022

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Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from the truth, however, as Edgar Garcia makes clear in Signs of the Americas. Rather than being dead languages, these sign-systems have always been living, evolving signifiers, responsive to their circumstances and able to continuously redefine themselves and the nature of the world. Garcia tells the story of the present life of these sign-systems, examining the contemporary impact they have had on poetry, prose, visual art, legal philosophy, political activism, and environmental thinking. In doing so, he brings together a wide range of indigenous and non-indigenous authors and artists of the Americas, from Aztec priests and Amazonian shamans to Simon Ortiz, Gerald Vizenor, Jaime de Angulo, Charles Olson, Cy Twombly, Gloria Anzaldúa, William Burroughs, Louise Erdrich, Cecilia Vicuña, and many others. From these sources, Garcia depicts the culture of a modern, interconnected hemisphere, revealing that while these “signs of the Americas” have suffered expropriation, misuse, and mistranslation, they have also created their own systems of knowing and being. These indigenous systems help us to rethink categories of race, gender, nationalism, and history. Producing a new way of thinking about our interconnected hemisphere, this ambitious, energizing book redefines what constitutes a “world” in world literature.

Signs in America's Auto Age

John A. Jakle,John A. & Keith A. Jakle & Sculle,Keith A. Sculle
Signs in America s Auto Age Book PDF

Author : John A. Jakle,John A. & Keith A. Jakle & Sculle,Keith A. Sculle
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-08-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781587294822

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Signs in America's Auto Age by John A. Jakle,John A. & Keith A. Jakle & Sculle,Keith A. Sculle Pdf

Signs orient, inform, persuade, and regulate. They help give meaning to our natural and human-built environment, to landscape and place. In Signs in America’s Auto Age, cultural geographer John Jakle and historian Keith Sculle explore the ways in which we take meaning from outdoor signs and assign meaning to our surroundings—the ways we “read” landscape. With an emphasis on how the use of signs changed as the nation’s geography reorganized around the coming of the automobile, Jakle and Sculle consider the vast array of signs that have evolved since the beginning of the twentieth century.

Signs Across America

Edgar H. Shroyer,Susan P. Shroyer
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Author : Edgar H. Shroyer,Susan P. Shroyer
Publisher : Gallaudet University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0913580961

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Signs Across America by Edgar H. Shroyer,Susan P. Shroyer Pdf

Signs Across America provides a fascinating and unique look at regional variations in American Sign Language. The authors contacted native signers in 25 states to find out their signs for 130 selected words. The results--more than 1,200 signs--are illustrated in this book. It is an invaluable reference for teachers of American Sign Language that explores the subtle differences in signs from different geographic areas.

Signs, Streets, and Storefronts

Martin Treu
Signs Streets and Storefronts Book PDF

Author : Martin Treu
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781421404943

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Signs, Streets, and Storefronts by Martin Treu Pdf

Treu tackles the architectural history and signage of Main Street and the strip—from painted boards nailed over crude storefronts to sleek cinemas topped with neon glitz. Honorable Mention, Architecture and Urban Planning, 2012 PROSE Awards Signs, Streets, and Storefronts addresses more than 200 years of signs and place-marking along America’s commercial corridors. From small-town squares to Broadway, State Street, and Wilshire Boulevard, Martin Treu follows design developments into the present and explores issues of historic preservation. Treu considers “common” architecture and its place-defining business signs as well as influential high-style design examples by taste-making leaders. Combining advertising and architectural history, the book presents a full picture of the commercial landscape, including design adaptations made for motorists and the migration from Main Street to suburbia. The dynamic between individual businesses and the common good has a major effect on the appearance of our country's Main Streets. Several forces are at work: technological advances, design imagination and the media, corporate propaganda, customer needs, and municipal mandates. Present-day controls have often led to a denuding of traditional commercial corridors. Such reform, Treu argues, has suppressed originality and radically cleared away years of accumulated history based on the taste of a single generation. A must-read for city planners, town councils, architects, sign designers, concerned citizens, and anyone who cares about the appearance and vitality of America’s commercial streets, this heavily illustrated book is equally appealing to armchair historians, small-town enthusiasts, and lovers of Americana.

Vintage Signs of America

Debra Jane Seltzer
Vintage Signs of America Book PDF

Author : Debra Jane Seltzer
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445669496

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Vintage Signs of America by Debra Jane Seltzer Pdf

A terrific, lavishly illustrated look at the fascinating world of American roadside signs.

American Signs

Lisa Mahar-Keplinger
American Signs Book PDF

Author : Lisa Mahar-Keplinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X004721167

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American Signs by Lisa Mahar-Keplinger Pdf

The roadside sign is an American icon: a glowing evocation of the golden age of the open road. Yet signs, more than nostalgic symbols, are complex pieces of design that reflect signmakers' ambitions and intentions, reveal cultural and economic trends, and stand as evidence of vernacular traditions. American Signs combines text and image to analyze the motel signs of Route 66 -- their concept and influences, typestyle and color choice, form and composition, context and placement. With its insightful writing, clear graphic diagrams, and hundreds of contemporary and historic images, American Signs is a singular reading experience and a groundbreaking study. Book jacket.

Forbidden Signs

Douglas C. Baynton
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Author : Douglas C. Baynton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780226039688

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Forbidden Signs by Douglas C. Baynton Pdf

Forbidden Signs explores American culture from the mid-nineteenth century to 1920 through the lens of one striking episode: the campaign led by Alexander Graham Bell and other prominent Americans to suppress the use of sign language among deaf people. The ensuing debate over sign language invoked such fundamental questions as what distinguished Americans from non-Americans, civilized people from "savages," humans from animals, men from women, the natural from the unnatural, and the normal from the abnormal. An advocate of the return to sign language, Baynton found that although the grounds of the debate have shifted, educators still base decisions on many of the same metaphors and images that led to the misguided efforts to eradicate sign language. "Baynton's brilliant and detailed history, Forbidden Signs, reminds us that debates over the use of dialects or languages are really the linguistic tip of a mostly submerged argument about power, social control, nationalism, who has the right to speak and who has the right to control modes of speech."—Lennard J. Davis, The Nation "Forbidden Signs is replete with good things."—Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review

The Book of Name Signs

Samuel James Supalla
The Book of Name Signs Book PDF

Author : Samuel James Supalla
Publisher : Dawnsign Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UVA:X004113549

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Through his research over the years, Dr Supalla, who is deaf, has identified the name sign system which has a pattern to forming and giving name signs within the deaf communities. The need for a formal name sign book has risen dramatically with the increasing use of inappropriate name signs. There is a comprehensive guide and a list of over 500 name signs to help people to select appropriate name signs according to the American Sign Language (ASL) rules of formation and use. The book is written to be both informative and entertaining, and Dr Supalla compels all who are interested to become more aware of deaf people's intriguing signed language and culture, both dating back to the early years of deaf education.

Italian Signs, American Streets

Fred L. Gardaphé
Italian Signs American Streets Book PDF

Author : Fred L. Gardaphé
Publisher : New Americanists
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UCSC:32106016726405

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Italian Signs, American Streets by Fred L. Gardaphé Pdf

In the first major critical reading of Italian American narrative literature in two decades, Fred L. Gardaphé presents an interpretive overview of Italian American literary history. Examining works from the turn of the twentieth century to the present, he develops a new perspective--variously historical, philosophical, and cultural--by which American writers of Italian descent can be read, increasing the discursive power of an ethnic literature that has received too little serious critical attention. Gardaphé draws on Vico's concept of history, as well as the work of Gramsci, to establish a culture-specific approach to reading Italian American literature. He begins his historical reading with narratives informed by oral traditions, primarily autobiography and autobiographical fiction written by immigrants. From these earliest social-realist narratives, Gardaphé traces the evolution of this literature through tales of "the godfather" and the mafia; the "reinvention of ethnicity" in works by Helen Barolini, Tina DeRosa, and Carole Maso; the move beyond ethnicity in fiction by Don DeLillo and Gilbert Sorrentino; to the short fiction of Mary Caponegro, which points to a new direction in Italian American writing. The result is both an ethnography of Italian American narrative and a model for reading the signs that mark the "self-fashioning" inherent in literary and cultural production. Italian Signs, American Streets promises to become a landmark in the understanding of literature and culture produced by Italian Americans. It will be of interest not only to students, critics, and scholars of this ethnic experience, but also to those concerned with American literature in general and the place of immigrant and ethnic literatures within that wide framework.

The Great American Book of Church Signs

Anonim
The Great American Book of Church Signs Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10
Category : Church signs
ISBN : 0978971515

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The Great American Book of Church Signs by Anonim Pdf

We've all seen them. The catchy and quirky messages displayed on church marquees like: "Life is fragile. Handle with prayer." In Donald Seitz's beautiful full-color book, THE GREAT AMERICAN BOOK OF CHURCH SIGNS, every signs tells its own story--encouraging us to live better lives, to love more deeply, and to pray more often. And with the turn of every page, we're reminded to laugh along the way. One sign of encouragement reads: "Don't give up. Moses was once a basket case." The 100 signs featured in this book, drawn from more than a dozen denominations, cover such diverse topics as faith, forgiveness, perseverance, love and eternity. "Collectively," Seitz adds, "these signs offer one great American sermon." With his keen eye for detail, his exquisite photography, and his love for the subject matter, Seitz has created the definitive work on church signs.

Signs and Wonders

Tama Starr,Ed Hayman
Signs and Wonders Book PDF

Author : Tama Starr,Ed Hayman
Publisher : Currency
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020135237

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Signs and Wonders by Tama Starr,Ed Hayman Pdf

"Coauthored by the third-generation owner of Artkraft Strauss, the century-old company that built most of Times Square's landmark displays," this book details the history of "spectaculars," the giant animated signs best exemplified in Times Square.

Republic of Signs

Anne Norton
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Author : Anne Norton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1993-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226595129

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Republic of Signs by Anne Norton Pdf

Norton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted. The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. "In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."—Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review "[S]timulating and stylish exploration of political theory, language, culture, and shopping at the mall . . . popular culture at its best, informed by history and theory, serious in purpose, yet witty and modest in tone."—Bernard Mergen, American Studies International

Signs and Wonders

Alix Ohlin
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Author : Alix Ohlin
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770892095

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A New York Times Editors' Choice and an Oprah's Book Club Summer Reading Pick In this brilliant new collection, Scotiabank Giller Prize and Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize nominee Alix Ohlin skillfully displays the full range of human emotions through the subtly powerful dramas of everyday life. In "You Are What You Like" a young couple finds their life derailed by the arrival of a hard-partying old friend. In "Robbing the Cradle" Lisette does everything she can to give her husband a baby, committing an act of desperation. In "The Idea Man" Beth, a divorcee, falls in love with a man who lies for fun. And in the incredible title story, Kathleen finds herself sitting at the hospital bedside of a man she had planned to divorce, comforted by the woman she went out of her way to hurt. These characters are divorced and beginning to date again, childless and longing for children, married and aching for more. Often unexpected and unsettling, always fascinating, Signs and Wonders showcases a young writer of remarkable range and emotional depth.

Their Way of Writing

Elizabeth Hill Boone,Gary Urton
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Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone,Gary Urton
Publisher : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Indians of Central America
ISBN : 0884023680

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Their Way of Writing by Elizabeth Hill Boone,Gary Urton Pdf

Based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2008. The fifteen contributors to Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America consider substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient Americas. They present the latest thinking about these graphic and tactile systems of communication. Their variety of perspectives and their advances in decipherment and understanding constitute a major contribution not only to our understanding of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American cultures but also to our comparative and global understanding of writing and literacy.

The Coming Revolution

Richard Lee
The Coming Revolution Book PDF

Author : Richard Lee
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780849948299

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We are living in a time of monumental change. Countless numbers of ordinary people, men and women from all walks of life, are joining forces to challenge the direction our national leaders are now taking us. Washington's idea of change has failed, and most Americans are now frustrated, disappointed, and angry. The result is a long list of offenses, both perceived and real, that can easily set off a chain reaction that quickly becomes irreversible. And in the right environment, the situation can be explosive. It is easy to see that many of the identical social and religious provocations that spurred the colonists toward the First American Revolution are present today, inspiring a new generation to seek what the Founders called "a new birth of freedom." Signs are pointing to the fact that we are now standing on the threshold of a new American revolution, not with muskets and cannon balls this time but a revolution conscience, morality, and honor, dedicated to responsible social, moral, and political reforms, demanding change from the socialistic direction our political, judicial, and intellectual leaders have been taking us. The Coming Revolution draws from the wellspring of America's powerful past to reveal a nation of people who, under the hand of Divine Providence, will once again fight and win the coming battle for personal and national freedom.