Semiotic Encounters
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 2009-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789042027152 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9042027150 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semiotic Encounters by :
Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. The volume’s combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with ‘English classics’ and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures.
Author |
: Sarah Säckel |
Publisher |
: Rodopi |
Total Pages |
: 277 |
Release |
: 2009 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789042027145 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9042027142 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semiotic Encounters by : Sarah Säckel
Semiotic Encounters: Text, Image and Trans-Nation aims at opening up scholarly debates on the contemporary challenges of intertextuality in its various intersections with postcolonial and visual culture studies. Commencing with three theoretical contributions, which work towards the creation of frameworks under which intertextuality can be (re)viewed today, the volume then explores textual and visual encounters in a number of case studies. While (a) the dimension of the intertextual in the traditional sense (as specified e.g. by Genette) and (b) the widening of the concept towards visual and digital culture govern the structure of the volume, questions of the transnational and/or postcolonial form a recurrent subtext. The volume's combination of theoretical discussions and case studies, which predominantly deal with 'English classics' and their rewritings, film adaptations and/or rereadings, will mainly attract graduate students and scholars working on contemporary literary theory, visual culture and postcolonial literatures.
Author |
: Crystal L. Downing |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 342 |
Release |
: 2012-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830866854 |
ISBN-13 |
: 083086685X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Changing Signs of Truth by : Crystal L. Downing
Crystal Downing brings the postmodern theory of semiotics within reach for today's evangelists. Following the idea of the sign through Scripture, church history and the academy, Downing shows you how signs work and how sensitivity to their dynamics can make or break an attempt to communicate truth.
Author |
: Sunhee Kim Gertz |
Publisher |
: Information Age Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015069375692 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semiotic Rotations by : Sunhee Kim Gertz
The title of our volume on interdisciplinary semiotics is situated in a geographical metaphor and points to the possibility of uncovering meanings through shifting perspectives as well as to the possibility of understanding how these various modes of meaning are articulated and framed in particular cultural instances. Regardless of medium, semiotic rotations permit play between the surface and underlying levels of a communication, reveal the relationship between open and closed systems of signification, and modulate shades of meaning caught between the visible and invisible. Readerly play in these sets of apparent oppositions reveals that the less each pairing is held to be a coupling of oppositions and the more they are observed through perspectives gained by semiotic rotations, then the more complex and rich the modes of meaning may become.
Author |
: Michelle Wibbelsman |
Publisher |
: University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages |
: 235 |
Release |
: 2010-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780252092879 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0252092872 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ritual Encounters by : Michelle Wibbelsman
This book examines ritual practices and public festivals in the Otavalo and Cotacachi areas of northern Andean Ecuador's Imbabura province. Otavaleños are a unique group in that they maintain their traditional identity but also cultivate a cosmopolitanism through frequent international travel. Ritual Encountersexplores the moral, mythic, and modern crossroads at which Otavaleños stand, and how, at this junction, they come to define themselves as millennial people. Michelle Wibbelsman shows that Otavaleños are deeply engaged in transnational mobility and in the cultural transformations that have resulted from Otavalan participation in global markets, international consumer trends, and technological developments. Rituals have persisted among this ethnic community as important processes for symbolically capturing and critically assessing cultural changes in the face of modern influences. As religious expression, political commentary, transcendental communication, moral judgment, and transformative experience, Otavalan rituals constitute enduring practices that affirm ethnic identities, challenge dominant narratives, and take issue with power inequalities behind hegemony. Ritual Encounters thus offers an appreciation of the modern and mythic community as a single and emergent condition.
Author |
: Robert E. Innis |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 300 |
Release |
: 2022-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438488264 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438488262 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters by : Robert E. Innis
We encounter in our lives things and situations that elicit from us special forms of attention. They affect and inform us in various ways, drawing us in and holding us in their grasp or turning us away. Works of art of all sorts, and nature in its myriad manifestations, exemplify these luring and repelling qualities and potencies. Dimensions of Aesthetic Encounters explores central perceptual, interpretative, and semiotic dimensions of these encounters, combining a wide range of examples and intellectual resources from pragmatist, hermeneutical, and semiotic frameworks. Practicing a kind of "method of rotation" Robert E. Innis breaks down barriers in aesthetic theory and shows their complementary powers. Recurring themes link each chapter, throwing a powerful light on aesthetic encounters by foregrounding such pivotal notions as play, fundedness and the role of memory, the defining quality of an artwork, energies of objects, potencies, rhythm, form, presentational abstraction, medium, symbolization, intuition, role of the body, and the non-argumentative nature of art.
Author |
: Massimo Leone |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 410 |
Release |
: 2024-10-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004691483 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004691480 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Semiotic Ideologies by : Massimo Leone
This book offers a comprehensive exploration of language and semiotic ideologies, focusing on how societies construct meaning through verbal and non-verbal communication. It distinguishes itself by adopting a novel approach that bridges linguistics, semiotics, and anthropology. The research dives into uncharted territory, shedding light on the intricate connections between language, culture, and cognition, offering a perspective less common in traditional linguistics or semiotics. Throughout the book, the reader will encounter rare, illustrative examples showcasing the rich tapestry of human communication. Additionally, previously undisclosed historical data adds depth to the analysis, providing fresh insights. This work is designed for scholars seeking a deeper understanding of meaning-making processes and their cultural variations. It also serves as a resource for those interested in the complex interplay of language and semiotics in everyday life.
Author |
: Louise Economides |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2021-05-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000388343 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000388344 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Surreal Entanglements by : Louise Economides
This edited collection approaches the most pressing discourses of the Anthropocene and posthumanist culture through the surreal, yet instructive lens of Jeff VanderMeer’s fiction. In contrast to universalist and essentializing ways of responding to new material realities, VanderMeer’s work invites us to re-imagine human subjectivity and other collectivities in the light of historically unique entanglements we face today: the ecological, technological, aesthetic, epistemological, and political challenges of life in the Anthropocene era. Situating these messy, multi-scalar, material complexities of life in close relation to their ecological, material, and colonialist histories, his fiction renders them at once troublingly familiar and strangely generative of other potentialities and insight. The collection measures VanderMeer’s work as a new kind of speculative surrealism, his texts capturing the strangeness of navigating a world in which "nature" has become radically uncanny due to global climate change and powerful bio-technologies. The first collection to survey academic engagements with VanderMeer, this book brings together scholars in the fields of environmental literature, science fiction, genre studies, American literary history, philosophy of technology, and digital cultures to reflect on the environmentally, culturally, aesthetically, and politically central questions his fiction poses to predominant understandings of the Anthropocene.
Author |
: Kara Poe Alexander |
Publisher |
: University Press of Colorado |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2024-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781646425341 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1646425340 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (41 Downloads) |
Synopsis Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer by : Kara Poe Alexander
Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer explores transfer across various contexts of multimodal composing, extending the early conversations connecting multimodality to writing. Contributors address how writing transfer theories intersect with multimodal composing and present methods for facilitating transfer across modes and media, offering insight into how writers can learn to compose when they encounter familiar modes in new contexts. Over the past two decades the concepts of multimodal composing and writing transfer have grown and reshaped the nature of writing studies, but rarely have the ways in which these areas overlap been studied. This collection shows how this shift in writing studies has been mutually informative, covering a wider range of contexts for multimodality and writing transfer than just in first-year composition courses. It places composition teaching practices and multimodal research in conversation with learning transfer theory to provide an in-depth examination of how they influence one another. Multimodal Composing and Writing Transfer develops these intersections to connect multimodal composition and writing practices across a wide array of fields and contexts. Scholars across disciplines, postsecondary writing teachers, writing program administrators, writing center directors, and graduate students will find this collection indispensable.
Author |
: M.A.K. Halliday |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 2006-03-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826488251 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826488250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (51 Downloads) |
Synopsis Language of Early Childhood by : M.A.K. Halliday
Professor M A K Halliday has been enriching the discipline of linguistics with his keen insights into the social semiotic phenomenon we call language. This ten-volume series presents his seminal works. This fourth volume contains sixteen papers that look at the development of early childhood language. They are presented in three parts.