Symbolism And Interpretation

Author : Tzvetan Todorov
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 0801493714

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Symbolism and Interpretation by Tzvetan Todorov Pdf

In Symbolism and Interpretation, Tzvetan Todorov examines two aspects of discourse: its production, which has traditionally been the domain of rhetoric, and its reception, which has always been the object of hermeneutics. He analyzes the diverse theories of symbolism and interpretation that have been elaborated over the centuries and considers their contribution to a general theory of verbal symbolism, discussing a wide range of thinkers, from the Sanskrit philosophers and Aristotle to the German Romantics and contemporary semioticians. Todorov begins by examining general ideas of linguistic symbolism and the interpretive process. He then turns to a detailed consideration of two of the most influential and pervasive interpretative strategies in Western thought: the patristic exegesis of Augustine and Aquinas, and the philological exegesis foreshadowed in the work of Spinoza, developed by Wolf, Ast, Boeckh, and Lanson, and criticized by Schleiermacher. Todorov clarifies in masterly fashion the intricacies of the many schools of thought and refines the concepts crucial to critical theory today, including the distinctions between language and discourse, direct and indirect meaning, sign and symbol. Ably translated by Catherine Porter, Symbolism and Interpretation provides a coherent and innovative framework that is indispensable to the study of semiotics, its history, and its future.

Author : Roy G. Willis
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : UCAL:B4381152

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The Interpretation of Symbolism by Roy G. Willis Pdf

Author : Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : Art
ISBN : EAN:8596547679363

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Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning by Pamela Sachant,Peggy Blood,Jeffery LeMieux,Rita Tekippe Pdf

Introduction to Art: Design, Context, and Meaning offers a deep insight and comprehension of the world of Art. Contents: What is Art? The Structure of Art Significance of Materials Used in Art Describing Art - Formal Analysis, Types, and Styles of Art Meaning in Art - Socio-Cultural Contexts, Symbolism, and Iconography Connecting Art to Our Lives Form in Architecture Art and Identity Art and Power Art and Ritual Life - Symbolism of Space and Ritual Objects, Mortality, and Immortality Art and Ethics

Author : Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 807 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 3836514486

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The Book of Symbols by Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism Pdf

Offers photograph illustrations and essays on numerous symbols and symbolic imagery, exploring their archetypal meanings as well as cultural and historical context for how different groups have interpreted them.

Author : Kevin J. Conner
Publisher : Rich Brott
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0914936514

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Interpreting the Symbols and Types by Kevin J. Conner Pdf

This book by Kevin Conner undertakes to interpret signs, symbols, and types that he discovers beneath the surface in biblical text.

Author : Maurice Beebe
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106001644829

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Literary Symbolism by Maurice Beebe Pdf

Author : Malinda Lo
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780316214469

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Adaptation by Malinda Lo Pdf

Across North America, flocks of birds hurl themselves into airplanes, causing at least a dozen to crash. Thousands of people die. Fearing terrorism, the United States government grounds all flights, and millions of travelers are stranded. Among them are Reese and her debate team partner and longtime crush David, who are in Arizona when the disaster occurs. On their drive home to San Francisco, along a stretch of empty highway in the middle of the Nevada night, a bird flies into their headlights. The car flips over. When they wake up in a military hospital, the doctor won't tell them what happened, where they are--or how they've been miraculously healed. Things become even stranger when Reese returns home. San Francisco feels like a different place with police enforcing curfew, hazmat teams collecting dead birds, and a strange presence that seems to be following her. When Reese unexpectedly collides with the beautiful Amber Gray, her search for the truth is forced in an entirely new direction-and threatens to expose a vast global conspiracy that the government has worked for decades to keep secret. Adaptation is a bold contemporary science-fiction thriller from the acclaimed author of Ash.

Author : Dan Sperber
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975-09-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0521099676

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Rethinking Symbolism by Dan Sperber Pdf

"The main thrust of this book is to deliver a major critique of materialist and rationalist explanations of social and cultural forms, but the in the process Sahlins has given us a much stronger statement of the centrality of symbols in human affairs than have many of our 'practicing' symbolic anthropologists. He demonstrates that symbols enter all phases of social life: those which we tend to regard as strictly pragmatic, or based on concerns with material need or advantage, as well as those which we tend to view as purely symbolic, such as ideology, ritual, myth, moral codes, and the like. . . ."—Robert McKinley, Reviews in Anthropology

Author : D.M. Rasmussen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401015943

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Symbol and Interpretation by D.M. Rasmussen Pdf

For the past four or five years much of my thinking has centered up on the relationship of symbolic forms to philosophic imagination and interpretation. As one whose own philosophic speculations began at. the end of a cultural epoch under methodologies dominated either by neo-Kantianism or schools of logical empiricism the symbol as a prod uct of a cultural imagination has been diminished; it has been neces sary for those who wanted to preserve the symbol to find appropriate philosophical methodologies to do so. In the following chapters we shall attempt to show, through a consideration of a series of recent interpretations of the symbol, as well as through constructive argu ment, that the symbol ought to be considered as a linguistic form in the sense that it constitutes a special language with its own rubrics and properties. There are two special considerations to be taken ac count of in this argument; first, the definition of the symbol, and sec ond, the interpretation of the symbol. Although we shall refrain from defining the symbol explicitly at this point let it suffice to state that our definition of the symbol is more aesthetic than logical (in the technical sense of formal logic ), more cultural than individual, more imaginative than scientific. The symbol in our view is somewhere at the center of culture, the well-spring which testifies to the human imagination in its poetic, psychic, religious, social and political forms.

Author : Andrei Pop
Publisher : Zone Books
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781935408369

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A Forest of Symbols by Andrei Pop Pdf

A groundbreaking reassessment of Symbolist artists and writers that investigates the concerns they shared with scientists of the period—the problem of subjectivity in particular. In A Forest of Symbols, Andrei Pop presents a groundbreaking reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century associated with the Symbolist movement. For Pop, “symbolist” denotes an art that is self-conscious about its modes of making meaning, and he argues that these symbolist practices, which sought to provide more direct access to viewers and readers by constant revision of its material means of meaning-making (brushstrokes on a canvas, words on a page), are crucial to understanding the genesis of modern art. The symbolists saw art not as a social revolution, but as a revolution in sense and how to conceptualize the world. The concerns of symbolist painters and poets were shared to a remarkable degree by theoretical scientists of the period, who were dissatisfied with the strict empiricism dominant in their disciplines, which made shared knowledge seem unattainable. The problem of subjectivity in particular, of what in one's experience can and cannot be shared, was crucial to the possibility of collaboration within science and to the communication of artistic innovation. Pop offers close readings of the literary and visual practices of Manet and Mallarmé, of drawings by Ernst Mach, William James and Wittgenstein, of experiments with color by Bracquemond and Van Gogh, and of the philosophical systems of Frege and Russell—filling in a startling but coherent picture of the symbolist heritage of modernity and its consequences.

Author : Adrian Frutiger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UVA:X004260170

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Signs and Symbols by Adrian Frutiger Pdf

Discusses the elements of a sign, and looks at pictograms, alphabets, calligraphy, monograms, text type, numerical signs, symbols, and trademarks.

Author : John Gage
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520226119

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Color and Meaning by John Gage Pdf

"John Gage's Color and Meaning is full of ideas. . .He is one of the best writers on art now alive."--A. S. Byatt, Booker Prize winner

Author : Mark O'Connell,Richard Craze,Raje Airey
Publisher : Lorenz Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Dream interpretation
ISBN : 0754817423

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The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Symbols, Signs and Dream Interpretation by Mark O'Connell,Richard Craze,Raje Airey Pdf

Mind, body, spirit.

Author : J.M. DeBord
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-22
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781578596584

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The Dream Interpretation Dictionary by J.M. DeBord Pdf

Unravels dream symbols and their meanings What do reoccurring dreams reveal? What's the purpose of nightmares—and can they be stopped? Why do some people show up in dreams? Are some dreams actually warnings? Going beyond superficial explanations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs and Meanings brings a deep and rich understanding to a variety of images, signs, and symbols. It considers the context to help anyone complete their own personal jigsaw puzzle. It provides the tools to allow anyone to sort through possible connections and to make sense of their dreams. From entries ranging from “Abandonment” to “Zoo,” this massive tome analyzes sex dreams, money dreams, dreams of falling, running, or paralysis and much, much more. It brings profound insights to thousands of dream messages. It shows what to look for and what to ignore and teaches how to master dream interpretation. Examples of symbols are given. The complexity and context of a dream are explored. Signs and their meanings are illustrated. Illuminating the intelligence of dreams, decoding clues, explaining symbols, and revealing the universal meanings of each as well as their subtler associations, The Dream Interpretation Dictionary: Symbols, Signs, and Meanings explores the messages delivered by the unconscious mind during sleep. It examines how dreams connect to daily life. It shows how dreams can lead to deeper understanding and self-awareness. Also included are a helpful bibliography and an extensive index, adding to the book’s usefulness.

Author : Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Eugene Rochberg-Halton,Eugene Halton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1981-10-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 052128774X

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The Meaning of Things by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi,Eugene Rochberg-Halton,Eugene Halton Pdf

The meaning of things is a study of the significance of material possessions in contemporary urban life, and of the ways people carve meaning out of their domestic environment. Drawing on a survey of eighty families in Chicago who were interviewed on the subject of their feelings about common household objects, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Eugene Rochberg-Halton provide a unique perspective on materialism, American culture, and the self. They begin by reviewing what social scientists and philosophers have said about the transactions between people and things. In the model of 'personhood' that the authors develop, goal-directed action and the cultivation of meaning through signs assume central importance. They then relate theoretical issues to the results of their survey. An important finding is the distinction between objects valued for action and those valued for contemplation. The authors compare families who have warm emotional attachments to their homes with those in which a common set of positive meanings is lacking, and interpret the different patterns of involvement. They then trace the cultivation of meaning in case studies of four families. Finally, the authors address what they describe as the current crisis of environmental and material exploitation, and suggest that human capacities for the creation and redirection of meaning offer the only hope for survival. A wide range of scholars - urban and family sociologists, clinical, developmental and environmental psychologists, cultural anthropologists and philosophers, and many general readers - will find this book stimulating and compelling.