Author: Jenifer NolanPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
Shedding Light on the Obscure Journey
Author: Jenifer NolanCatalogue
Author: Western Theological Seminary of the Presbyterian ChurchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
The crescent and the Cross; or, Romance and realities of Eastern travel
Author: Bartholomew Elliott G. WarburtonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Crescent and the Cross
Author: Eliot WarburtonPublisher:
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Category : Egypt
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Crescent and the Cross: Or, Romance and Realities of Eastern Travel ... Fourteenth Edition
Author: Bartholomew Elliott George WARBURTONPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Journal
Author: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and IrelandPublisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Crossing Horizons
Author: Shlomo BidermanPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231140249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
In this book, Shlomo Biderman examines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. He turns to a rich and varied collection of primary sources: the Rg Veda, the Upanishads, and texts by the Buddhist philosophers Någårjuna and Vasubandhu, among others. In studying the West, Biderman considers the Bible and its commentaries, the writings of such philosophers as Plato, Descartes, Berkeley, Kant, and Derrida, and the literature of Kafka, Melville, and Orwell. Additional sources are Mozart's Don Giovanni and seminal films like Ingmar Bergman's Persona. Biderman uses concrete examples from religion and literature to illustrate the formal aspects of the philosophical problems of transcendence, language, selfhood, and the external world and then demonstrates their plausibility in actual situations. Though his method of analysis is comparative, Biderman does not adopt the disinterested stance of an "ideal" spectator. Rather, Biderman approaches ancient Indian thought and culture from a Western philosophical standpoint to uncover cultural presuppositions that can be difficult to expose from within the culture in question. The result is a fascinating landmark in the study of Indian and Western thought. Through his comparative prism, Biderman explores the most basic ideas underlying human culture, and his investigation not only sheds light on India's philosophical traditions but also facilitates a deeper understanding of our own.
Notes and Queries
Author: Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc
Author: Operationalizing Iconicity
Author: Pamela PernissPublisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
ISBN: 9027261415
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The Iconicity in Language and Literature series has long been dedicated to the recognition and understanding of the pervasiveness of iconicity in language in its many forms and functions. The present volume, divided into four sections, brings together and unifies different perspectives on iconicity. Chapters in the first section (Iconicity in language) provide linguistic analyses of systems of iconic forms in different languages, across both space (areally) and time (diachronically). The second section (Iconicity in literature) is concerned with stylistic analyses of iconicity in literature, in both poetry and prose and across a range of devices and genres. The third section (Iconicity in visual media) highlights the use and effects of iconicity in pictorial, photographic and cinematic media. The final section (Iconicity in semiotic analysis) offers a theoretical perspective, targeting an operationalisation of iconicity with respect to the relationship between types and subtypes of Peircean signs.