Author: PrescottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Social Readings and Recitations
How and why Books Matter
Author: James W. WattsPublisher: Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN: 9781781797693
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Religious and secular communities ritualize some books in one, two, or three dimensions. They ritualize the dimension of semantic interpretation through teaching, preaching, and scholarly commentary. This dimension receives almost all the attention of academic scholars. Communities also ritualize a text's expressive dimension through public reading, recitation, and song, and also by reproducing its contents in art, theatre and film. This dimension is receiving increasing scholarly attention, especially in religious studies and anthropology. A third textual dimension, the iconic dimension, gets ritualized by manipulating the physical text, decorating it, and displaying it. This dimension has received almost no academic attention, yet features prominently in the most common news stories about books, whether about e-books, academic libraries, rare manuscript discoveries, or scripture desecrations. By calling attention to the iconic dimension of books, James Watts argues that we can better understand how physical books mediate social value and power within and between religious communities, nations, academic disciplines, and societies both ancient and modern.How and Why Books Matter will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in books, reading, literacy, scriptures, e-books, publishing, and the future of the book. It also addresses scholarship in religion, cultural studies, literacy studies, biblical studies, book history, anthropology, literary studies, and intellectual history.
Recitations for Young Speakers, Or, Popular Program
Author: Henry Davenport NorthropPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Young Folks' Readings, for Social and Public Entertainment
Author: Lewis Baxter MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Recitations
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Reading Faces
Author: Leslie ZebrowitzPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429972814
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Do we read character in faces? What information do faces actually provide? What are the social and psychological consequences of reading character in faces? Zebrowitz unmasks the face and provides the first systematic, scientific account of our tendency to judge people by their appearance. Offering an in-depth discussion of two appearance qualities that influence our impressions of others—“baby-faceness” and “attractiveness”—and an analysis of these impressions, Zebrowitz has written an accessible and valuable book for professionals and general readers alike.
Public and Parlor Readings
Author: Lewis Baxter MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Recitations for the Social Circle
Author: Harvey James ClarencePublisher: Hardpress Publishing
ISBN: 9781318022984
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Werner's Readings and Recitations
Author: The Socialized Recitation
Author: Charles Leonidas RobbinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Public and Parlor Readings
Author: Lewis Baxter MonroePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Readers
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description