Author: Ernest W. B. Hess-Lüttich
Publisher: Gunter Narr Verlag
ISBN: 9783823343141
Category : Culture
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: Charlie Louth
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192542699
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 575

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The life of Rilke’s work is in its words, and this book attends closely to the life unfolding in Rilke’s words over the course of his career. What is a poem, and how does it act upon us as we read? What does reading involve? These are questions of the greatest interest to Rilke, who addresses them in several poems and for whom the experience of reading affords an interaction with the world—a recalibration of our ways of attending to it—which sets it apart from other kinds of experience. Rilke’s work is often approached in periods—he is the author of the New Poems, or of Malte, or of the Duino Elegies, or of the Sonnets to Orpheus—as if its different phases had little to do with one another, but in fact his writing is a concentrated and evolving exploration of the possibilities of poetic language, a working of the life of words into precise and exacting forms in dialogue with the texture of the world. The Life of the Work traces that trajectory in a series of close readings that do not neglect the lesser-known, uncollected verse and the poems in French, as well as Rilke’s activity as a translator of Michelangelo, Shakespeare, Barrett Browning, Mallarmé, and Valéry, among many others. These encounters were part of Rilke’s engagement with the world, his way of extending the reach of his language to get it ever closer to the ungraspable movements, the risk and promise, of life itself. One of his best-known poems ends with the words ‘You must change your life’, an injunction that animates the whole of his work.

Author: Roxane Haag-Higuchi
Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN: 9783447044110
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Das Buch basiert auf einem dreitagigen Forschungskolloquium unter dem Titel "Ortsansichten - Raumbilder. Funktion und Reprasentanz von Raumen und Orten in Literaturen der Islamischen Welt", das vom 15.-17. Juli 1999 in Bamberg stattfand. Es versammelt Studien zur erzahlerischen Darstellung von Raum und Ort in Texten unterschiedlicher Provenienz und verschiedener Genres aus der islamischen Welt. Literarische wie historiographische Texte sind bei der Konstruktion von Raum und Ort wesentlich. Symbolische Raume, historisch oder politisch konnotierte Orte, Antagonismen wie Ferne/Nahe, Stadt/Land oder privater/offentlicher Raum, das Verhaltnis von Subjekt und Raum und die Frage nach Grundlagen der Narrativik vom Raum erweisen sich als fruchtbarer interdisziplinarer Ansatz. Dies gilt besonders fur die Literaturen der islamischen Welt, die sich vor einem teilweise gemeinsamen, in wichtigen Punkten aber auch sehr unterschiedlichen historischen und sozio-kulturellen Hintergrund artikulieren. (Texte teils in deutscher, teils in englischer Sprache)Aus dem Inhalt: A. Krasnowolska, Mythological Topography of Iranian EpicsU. Marzolph, Ortsangaben in der persischen VolksliteraturY. Yamanaka, Urban Space in Vision: Exploring the City of Brass in the Thousand and One Nights u.a.

Author: Achim Eschbach
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027280444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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This volume brings together a collection of papers on the general theoretical and methodological problems in the historiography of semiotics. It is not a history in the conventional sense, even though the main periods and figures in the development of semiotics are given due prominence. Nevertheless, it should offer the reader stimulation and food for thought in the critical approach to even the least questioned facts of semiotic history and the emphasis given to hitherto neglected problems and persons.

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Publisher: Brill Archive
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 268

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Author: Christina Lechtermann
Publisher: Erich Schmidt Verlag GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 9783503098293
Category : Perception
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Marcia Reed
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606064541
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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The Edible Monument considers the elaborate architecture, sculpture, and floats made of food that were designed for court and civic celebrations in early modern Europe. These include popular festivals such as Carnival and the Italian Cuccagna. Like illuminations and fireworks, ephemeral artworks made of food were not well documented and were challenging to describe because they were perishable and thus quickly consumed or destroyed. In times before photography and cookbooks, there were neither literary models nor a repertoire of conventional images for how food and its preparation should be explained or depicted. Although made for consumption, food could also be a work of art, both as a special attraction and as an expression of power. Formal occasions and spontaneous celebrations drew communities together, while special foods and seasonal menus revived ancient legends, evoking memories and recalling shared histories, values, and tastes. Drawing on books, prints, and scrolls that document festival arts, elaborate banquets, and street feasts, the essays in this volume examine the mythic themes and personas employed to honor and celebrate rulers; the methods, materials, and wares used to prepare, depict, and serve food; and how foods such as sugar were transformed to express political goals or accomplishments. This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Getty Research Institute from October 13, 2015, to March 23, 2016.

Author: Michelle Howard
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035604231
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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In 2008, the Department of Art and Architecture at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts developed a new basis for the architecture curriculum. They created five research platforms: Analogue and Digital Production (ADP), Ecology Sustainability Conservation (ESC), History Theory Criticism (HTC), Geography Landscape Cities (GLC) and Construction Material Technology (CMT). The CMT platform is lead by Michelle Howard; who used the platform to explore the Research Observe Make (ROM) teaching studies. The ROM publication documents this program of studies and also forms the basis for future development. It comprises, assembled in one volume, five complementary books, which can also be read individually. After an introduction and an exposé on theory, the "elemental", "spatial" and "material" projects are introduced. The last book documents workshops, lectures and experiments. An inspiring compendium with numerous expert contributions and creative student projects.

Author: Roland Posner
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110179628
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction. For "classic" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the more recent branches of communication science the handbooks will give researchers both an verview and orientation. To attain these objectives, the series will aim for a standard comparable to that of the leading handbooks in other disciplines, and to this end will strive for comprehensiveness, theoretical explicitness, reliable documentation of data and findings, and up-to-date methodology. The editors, both of the series and of the individual volumes, and the individual contributors, are committed to this aim. The languages of publication are English, German, and French. The main aim of the series is to provide an appropriate account of the state of the art in the various areas of linguistics and communication science covered by each of the various handbooks; however no inflexible pre-set limits will be imposed on the scope of each volume. The series is open-ended, and can thus take account of further developments in the field. This conception, coupled with the necessity of allowing adequate time for each volume to be prepared with the necessary care, means that there is no set time-table for the publication of the whole series. Each volume will be a self-contained work, complete in itself. The order in which the handbooks are published does not imply any rank ordering, but is determined by the way in which the series is organized; the editor of the whole series enlist a competent editor for each individual volume. Once the principal editor for a volume has been found, he or she then has a completely free hand in the choice of co-editors and contributors. The editors plan each volume independently of the others, being governed only by general formal principles. The series editor only intervene where questions of delineation between individual volumes are concerned. It is felt that this (modus operandi) is best suited to achieving the objectives of the series, namely to give a competent account of the present state of knowledge and of the perception of the problems in the area covered by each volume.

Author: Bela Brogyanyi
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027276986
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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This volume offers an important contribution to the comparative historical study of languages. Most of the articles deal with topics concerning the Indo-European proto-language as well as the individual languages descended from it. Essays in Finno-Ugric philology complete the volume. The book is divided in 8 sections: I. Indo-European, II. Anatolian, III. Indic, IV. Iranian and Armenian, V. Celtic, VI. Germanic Languages, VII. Slavic and Albanian, VIII. Fennougrica and Altaica.