The Iconic North

Author : Joan Sangster
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774831863
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iconic North written by Joan Sangster and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2016-05-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resilient ideological assumptions, shifting economic priorities, and government policy in the postwar era influenced how northern culture was represented in popular Canadian imagery. In an enlightening exposure of Canada’s cultural landscape, The Iconic North lays bare the relationship between settler nation building and popular images of Aboriginal experience. Joan Sangster redirects the debates about the geopolitical prospects of the North by addressing how women and gender relations have played a key role in the history of northern development. She reveals how assumptions about both Indigenous and non-Indigenous women shaped gender, class, and political relationships in the circumpolar north – a region now commanding more of the world’s attention.

Author : Ludovic De Cuypere
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027290776
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Limiting the Iconic written by Ludovic De Cuypere and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2008-06-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iconicity has become a popular notion in contemporary linguistic research. This book is the first to present a synthesis of the vast amount of scholarship on linguistic iconicity which has been produced in the previous decades, ranging from iconicity in phonology and morpho-syntax to the role of iconicity in language change. An extensive analysis is provided of some basic but nonetheless fundamental questions relating to iconicity in language, including: what is a linguistic sign and how are linguistic signs different from signs in general? What is an iconic sign and how may iconicity be involved in language? How does iconicity pertain to the relation between language and cognition? This book offers a new and comprehensive theoretical framework for iconicity in language. It is argued that the linguistic sign is fundamentally arbitrary, but that iconicity may be involved on a secondary level, adding extra meaning to an utterance.

Author : George Bornstein
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472108657
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iconic Page in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Culture written by George Bornstein and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Crystallizes advanced research on the "meanings" that are created by a work's physical construction

Author : Craig Cabell
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782198245
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Doctors Who's Who - The Story Behind Every Face of the Iconic Time Lord: Celebrating its 50th Year written by Craig Cabell and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Doctor Who is the world's longest-running science fiction television series, and has had children hiding behind sofa's since it was first broadcast in 1963. Eleven actors have played the famous Time Lord, starting with William Hartnell, and it has been a career landmark for all of them. Indeed, no other role in television history is as iconic, demanding, or as anticipated by its legions of fans as that of the famous time traveller with two hearts. Find out: * Who was a bouncer for The Rolling Stones before taking control of the Tardis. * Who was nearly blown up in the Second World War aboard HMS Hood. * Who had a fondness for woolly hats and had a grandson who would become Harry Potter's nemesis. * Who played a transvestite barmaid before becoming a Doctor Who heart-throb. Go back in time and read the human story behind a TV legend.

Author : Yui Suzuki
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229175
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan written by Yui Suzuki and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-12-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This profusely illustrated volume illuminates the primacy of icons in disseminating the worship of the Medicine Master Buddha (J: Yakushi Nyorai) in Japan. Suzuki’s meticulous study explicates how the devotional cult of Yakushi, one of the earliest Buddhist cults imported to Japan from the continent, interacted and blended with local beliefs, religious dispositions, and ritual practices over the centuries, developing its own distinctive imprint on Japanese soil. Worship of the Medicine Master Buddha became most influential during the Heian period (794–1185), when Yakushi’s popularity spread to different levels of society and locales outside the capital. The large number of Heian-period Yakushi statues found all across Japan demonstrates that Yakushi worship was an integral component of Heian religious practice. Medicine Master Buddha focuses on the ninth-century Tendai master Saichō (767–822) and his personal reverence for a standing Yakushi icon. The author proposes that, after Saichō’s death, the Tendai school played a critical role in popularizing the cult of this particular icon as a way of memorializing its founding master and strengthening its position as a major school of Japanese Buddhism. This publication offers a fresh perspective on sculptural representations of the Medicine Master Buddha (including the famous Jingoji Yakushi), and in so doing, reconsiders Yakushi worship as foundational to Heian religious and artistic culture.

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Iconic Building written by Charles Jencks and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A new type of achitecture has emerged in the last decade : the iconic landmark building, which challenges the traditional architectural monument. In the past, public buildings expressed shared meaning through well-known conventions. Today those conventions are superceded by commercial forces and the quest for instant fame. Public architecture is now required to be an amazing piece of surreal sculpture as well as something that appeals to a diverse audience - at once provocative and practical yet without the context that religion and ideaology once provided. Such contrary demands drive the architect toward a new convention : the enigmatic signifier. This curious sign suggests many meanings without naming of them. The most publized version of the genre, Frank Gehry's New Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, 1997, became an instant media event that forces other architects to design event buildings routinely. This 'Bilbao effect' has led to a series of landmark buildings by architects such as Norman Foster, Peter Eisenman, Enric Miralles, Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Renzo Piano, Will Alsop, and Rem Koolhaas. Some of these buildings are successful creations, while others make us wince." -- book jacket.

Author : T.A. Flower
Publisher : T.A. Flower
ISBN 13 : 1005537100
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Queensland Travelling: Basic Guide and E-book written by T.A. Flower and published by T.A. Flower. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With slight revisions for 2023, this e-book is a concise and basic overview of destinations in Queensland, Australia. Coverage of the entire state communicated in an interesting manner. From Gold Coast to Torres Strait in the east as well as Birdsville to Mount Isa in the west, with facts for smaller destinations. It is not a typical/everyday piece of travel writing.

Author : James W. Watts
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (UK)
ISBN 13 : 9781781792544
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Iconic Books and Texts written by James W. Watts and published by Equinox Publishing (UK). This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions.

Author : Robert Adam
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443839485
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Globalisation of Modern Architecture written by Robert Adam and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the break-up of the Soviet Union and the entry of Russia, China and India into the global market as the start of a new era of globalisation, Robert Adam compares new developments in architecture and urban design with major shifts in the balance of power since 1990. Based on the principle that design unavoidably follows social change, politics and economics, this analysis casts a new light on recent architecture. Starting with the lead up to events in the 1990s, links are established between the global dominance of the North Atlantic economies, architectural style and a dramatic increase in international architectural practice. The widely-observed homogeneity of the global consumer economy is examined in relation to branding, tourism and international competition between cities, and parallels are drawn with universal architectural and urban types, iconic architecture and the rise of the star architect. Contrasting pressures to maintain differences are identified in the break-up of nation states, identity politics, targeted marketing and environmentalism, and these are related to attempts to reinforce local identity through architecture and urban design. Using social, political and economic change as a guide to new directions in architecture and urban design, the book ends by tracing the changes in global power revealed by the 2008 Western financial crash and its immediate impact on the built environment. By comparing past patterns of cultural influence, the book speculates on how architecture and urban design may come to reflect wider global trends.

Author : Chris Ryan
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845414020
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism in China written by Chris Ryan and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an in-depth understanding of tourism development and destination planning in China's transitional economy. It represents an international collaboration between researchers both in and outside China and provides a unique platform for a broad international audience to better understand China and China tourism issues.