Author: Shu Fan LeePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The Urban Script
Author: Shu Fan LeeThe Urban Script
Author: Timothy S. JonesPublisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1468574175
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
When does poetry stop being just words on a page and speak to the humanness of a people? After the consummation of comedy and tragedy birthsThe Urban Script: Laugh Now, Cry Later. Its not just poetry, its an embracing dance a dance that will not just remind you of the simple beauty of life, but will also recapture those memories that you had forgotten about and renew your passions for what drives you. This is what breathes into the script your livelihood on every page who you were as a kid; what your recollections through adolescence were; and, where you are now in your maturity as an adult. Let The Urban Scriptbe the key to the neo-Harlem Renaissance door that unlocks a whole new literary world to your poetic understanding. Through The Urban Scriptyou should see, experience, and know yourself in and through every poem every line and stanza. Now that you know what The Urban Scripthas in store for you, lay back, relax, and let the poetry of urban uniqueness enrapture you taking you to higher heights and reaching into your deeper depths of understanding.
Urban Script
Author: Lauren DuBeauPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Words in art
Languages : en
Pages :
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Deciphering the Indus Script
Author: Asko ParpolaPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521795661
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Of the writing systems of the ancient world which still await deciphering, the Indus script is the most important. It developed in the Indus or Harappan Civilization, which flourished c. 2500-1900 BC in and around modern Pakistan, collapsing before the earliest historical records of South Asia were composed. Nearly 4,000 samples of the writing survive, mainly on stamp seals and amulets, but no translations. Professor Parpola is the chief editor of the Corpus of Indus Seals and Inscriptions. His ideas about the script, the linguistic affinity of the Harappan language, and the nature of the Indus religion are informed by a remarkable command of Aryan, Dravidian, and Mesopotamian sources, archaeological materials, and linguistic methodology. His fascinating study confirms that the Indus script was logo-syllabic, and that the Indus language belonged to the Dravidian family.
Script and Society
Author: Philip J. BoyesPublisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1789255864
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
By the 13th century BC, the Syrian city of Ugarit hosted an extremely diverse range of writing practices. As well as two main scripts – alphabetic and logographic cuneiform - the site has also produced inscriptions in a wide range of scripts and languages, including Hurrian, Sumerian, Hittite, Egyptian hieroglyphs, Luwian hieroglyphs and Cypro-Minoan. This variety in script and language is accompanied by writing practices that blend influences from Mesopotamian, Anatolian and Levantine traditions together with what seem to be distinctive local innovations. Script and Society: The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit explores the social and cultural context of these complex writing traditions from the perspective of writing as a social practice. It combines archaeology, epigraphy, history and anthropology to present a highly interdisciplinary exploration of social questions relating to writing at the site, including matters of gender, ethnicity, status and other forms of identity, the relationship between writing and place, and the complex relationships between inscribed and uninscribed objects. This forms a case- study for a wider discussion of interdisciplinary approaches to the study of writing practices in the ancient world.
Imagining Cities
Author: Sallie WestwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134761430
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
First published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Charting Literary Urban Studies
Author: Jens Martin GurrPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000336018
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Guided by the multifaceted relations between city and text, Charting Literary Urban Studies: Texts as Models of and for the City attempts to chart the burgeoning field of literary urban studies by outlining how texts in varying degrees function as both representations of the city and as blueprints for its future development. The study addresses questions such as these: How do literary texts represent urban complexities – and how can they capture the uniqueness of a given city? How do literary texts simulate layers of urban memory – and how can they reinforce or help dissolve path dependencies in urban development? What role can literary studies play in interdisciplinary urban research? Are the blueprints or 'recipes' for urban development that most quickly travel around the globe – such as the 'creative city', the 'green city' or the 'smart city' – really always the ones that best solve a given problem? Or is the global spread of such travelling urban models not least a matter of their narrative packaging? In answering these key questions, this book also advances a literary studies contribution to the general theory of models, tracing a heuristic trajectory from the analysis of literary texts as representations of urban developments to an analysis of literary strategies in planning documents and other pragmatic, non-literary texts.
Screenwriting
Author: Andrew HortonPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813574358
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Screenwriters often joke that “no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay.” Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the “green light” from its financial backers and wins approval from its audience. This innovative volume gives readers a comprehensive portrait of the art and business of screenwriting, while showing how the role of the screenwriter has evolved over the years. Reaching back to the early days of Hollywood, when moonlighting novelists, playwrights, and journalists were first hired to write scenarios and photoplays, Screenwriting illuminates the profound ways that screenwriters have contributed to the films we love. This book explores the social, political, and economic implications of the changing craft of American screenwriting from the silent screen through the classical Hollywood years, the rise of independent cinema, and on to the contemporary global multi-media marketplace. From The Birth of a Nation (1915), Gone With the Wind (1939), and Gentleman’s Agreement (1947) to Chinatown (1974), American Beauty (1999), and Lost in Translation (2003), each project began as writers with pen and ink, typewriters, or computers captured the hopes and dreams, the nightmares and concerns of the periods in which they were writing. As the contributors take us behind the silver screen to chronicle the history of screenwriting, they spotlight a range of key screenplays that changed the game in Hollywood and beyond. With original essays from both distinguished film scholars and accomplished screenwriters, Screenwriting is sure to fascinate anyone with an interest in Hollywood, from movie buffs to industry professionals.
The Uses of Script and Print, 1300-1700
Author: Julia C. CrickPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521810630
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
This volume investigates written communication before and after the introduction of printing in England.
Urban Subversion and the Creative City
Author: Oli MouldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317633253
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Check out the author's video to find out more about the book: https://vimeo.com/124247409 This book provides a comprehensive critique of the current Creative City paradigm, with a capital ‘C’, and argues for a creative city with a small ‘c’ via a theoretical exploration of urban subversion. The book argues that the Creative City (with a capital 'C') is a systemic requirement of neoliberal capitalist urban development and part of the wider policy framework of ‘creativity’ that includes the creative industries and the creative class, and also has inequalities and injustices in-built. The book argues that the Creative City does stimulate creativity, but through a reaction to it, not as part of it. Creative City policies speak of having mechanisms to stimulate individual, collective or civic creativity, yet through a theoretical exploration of urban subversion, the book argues that to be 'truly' creative is to be radically different from those creative practices that the Creative City caters for. Moreover, the book analyses the role that urban subversion and subcultures have in the contemporary city in challenging the dominant political economic hegemony of urban creativity. Creative activities of people from cities all over the world are discussed and critically analysed to highlight how urban creativity has become co-opted for political and economic goals, but through a radical reconceptualisation of what creativity is that includes urban subversion, we can begin to realise a creative city (with a small 'c').