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Author |
: Roland Barthes |
Publisher |
: Macmillan |
Total Pages |
: 132 |
Release |
: 1982 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0374522073 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780374522070 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Empire of Signs by : Roland Barthes
This anthology by Roland Barthes is a reflection on his travels to Japan in the 1960s. In twenty-six short chapters he writes about his encounters with symbols of Japanese culture as diverse as pachinko, train stations, chopsticks, food, physiognomy, poetry, and gift-wrapping. He muses elegantly on, and with affection for, a system "altogether detached from our own." For Barthes, the sign here does not signify, and so offers liberation from the West's endless creation of meaning. Tokyo, like all major cities, has a center--the Imperial Palace--but in this case it is empty, "both forbidden and indifferent ... inhabited by an emperor whom no one ever sees." This emptiness of the sign is pursued throughout the book, and offers a stimulating alternative line of thought about the ways in which cultures are structured.
Author |
: Yoshihiko Ikegami |
Publisher |
: John Benjamins Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 348 |
Release |
: 1991-04-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789027285935 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9027285934 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Empire of Signs by : Yoshihiko Ikegami
Like Roland Barthes' well-known book, L’Empire des signes, from which the title of the present collection is taken, this volume contains essays dealing with certain aspects of Japanese culture.
Author |
: Karen Fang |
Publisher |
: University of Virginia Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2010-02-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780813928821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0813928826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Romantic Writing and the Empire of Signs by : Karen Fang
Nineteenth-century periodicals frequently compared themselves to the imperial powers then dissecting the globe, and this interest in imperialism can be seen in the exotic motifs that surfaced in works by such late Romantic authors as John Keats, Charles Lamb, James Hogg, Letitia Landon, and Lord Byron. Karen Fang explores the collaboration of these authors with periodical magazines to show how an interdependent relationship between these visual themes and rhetorical style enabled these authors to model their writing on the imperial project. Fang argues that in the decades after Waterloo late Romantic authors used imperial culture to capitalize on the contemporary explosion of periodical magazines. This proliferation of "post-Napoleonic" writing—often referencing exotic locales—both revises longstanding notions about literary orientalism and reveals a remarkable synthesis of Romantic idealism with contemporary cultural materialism that heretofore has not been explored. Indeed, in interlocking case studies that span the reach of British conquest, ranging from Greece, China, and Egypt to Italy and Tahiti, Fang challenges a major convention of periodical publication. While periodicals are usually thought to be defined by time, this account of the geographic attention exerted by late Romantic authors shows them to be equally concerned with space. With its exploration of magazines and imperialism as a context for Romantic writing, culture, and aesthetics, this book will appeal not only to scholars of book history and reading cultures but also to those of nineteenth-century British writing and history.
Author |
: June Teufel Dreyer |
Publisher |
: Oxford University Press |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780195375664 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0195375661 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (64 Downloads) |
Synopsis Middle Kingdom and Empire of the Rising Sun by : June Teufel Dreyer
"Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. Until the late nineteenth century, China was the more powerful, while Japan took the upper hand in the twentieth century. Now, China's resurgence has emboldened it as Japan perceives itself falling behind, exacerbating long-standing historical frictions ... Dreyer argues that recent disputes should be seen as manifestations of embedded rivalries rather than as issues whose resolution would provide a lasting solution to deep-standing disputes"--Jacket.
Author |
: Roland Barthes |
Publisher |
: French List |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0857422413 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780857422415 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (13 Downloads) |
Synopsis Signs and Images by : Roland Barthes
"Signs and Images gathers pieces related to Barthes' central concerns: semiotics, visual culture, art, cinema, and photography. It is a rare compilation of his articles on film criticism and reviews on art exhibitions. The volume features essays on Marthe Arnould, Lucien Clergue, Daniel Boudinet, Richard Avedon, Bernard Faucon, and many more."--Publisher.
Author |
: Françoise Waquet |
Publisher |
: Verso Books |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2023-02-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781804290491 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1804290491 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (91 Downloads) |
Synopsis Latin by : Françoise Waquet
A highly original and accessible history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries For almost three centuries, Latin dominated the civic and sacred worlds of Europe and, arguably, the entire western world. From the moment in the sixteenth century when it was adopted by the Humanists as the official language for schools and by the Catholic Church as the common liturgical language, it was the way in which millions of children were taught, people prayed to God, and scholars were educated. Francoise Waquet’s history of Latin between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries is a highly original and accessible exploration of the institutional contexts in which the language was adopted. It goes on to consider what this conferring of power and influence on Latin meant in practice. Among the questions Waquet investigates are: What privileges were, and are still, accorded to those who claim to have studied Latin? Can Latin as a subject for study be anything more than purely linguistic or does it reveal a far more complex heritage? Has Latin’s deeply embedded cultural legacy already given way to a nostalgic exoticism? Latin: A Symbol’s Empire is a valuable work of reference, but also an important piece of cultural history: the story of a language that became a symbol with its own, highly significant empire.
Author |
: |
Publisher |
: Chronicle Books |
Total Pages |
: 186 |
Release |
: 2017-05-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781452163895 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1452163898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (95 Downloads) |
Synopsis Japanese Notebooks by :
Japan is a place of special fascination for the acclaimed international comics creator Igort, who has visited and lived there more than 20 times, and worked in the country's manga industry for more than a decade. In this masterful new book—part graphic memoir, part cultural meditation—Igort vividly recounts his personal experiences in Japan, creating comics amid the activities of everyday life, and finding inspiration everywhere: in nature, history, custom, art, and encounters with creators including animation visionary Hayao Miyazaki. With beautifully illustrated reflections on subjects from printmaking to Zen Buddhism, imperial history to the samurai code, Japanese film, literature, and manga, this is a richly rewarding book for anyone interested in Japan or comic arts practiced at the highest level.
Author |
: Roland Barthes |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 1972 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0810105896 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780810105898 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Essays by : Roland Barthes
The essays in this volume were written during the years that its author's first four books were published in France. They chart the course of Barthe's criticism from the vocabularies of existentialism and Marxism (reflections on the social situation of literature and writer's responsibility before History) to a psychoanalysis of substances (after Bachelard) and a psychoanalytical anthropology (which evidently brought Barthes to his present terms of understanding with Levi-Strauss and Lacan).
Author |
: Peter Pericles Trifonas |
Publisher |
: Totem Books |
Total Pages |
: 88 |
Release |
: 2001 |
ISBN-10 |
: IND:30000081109336 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (36 Downloads) |
Synopsis Barthes and the Empire of Signs by : Peter Pericles Trifonas
Roland Barthes' imaginative or fictive exploration of Japan prompted him to examine the social and historical contingency of signs, how their meaning changes through time and in different contexts.
Author |
: Cecilia Lindqvist |
Publisher |
: Da Capo Press |
Total Pages |
: 426 |
Release |
: 2009-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780786731992 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0786731990 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis China by : Cecilia Lindqvist
The origins of Chinese ideographs were not known until 1899, when a scholar went to an apothecary for some medicine made of “dragon bone.” To his surprise, the bone, which had not yet been ground into powder, contained a number of carved inscriptions. Thus began the exploration of the 3000-year-old sources of the written characters still used in China today. In this unparalleled and deeply researched book, Cecilia Lindqvist tells the story of these characters and shows how their shapes and concepts have permeated all of Chinese thought, architecture, art, and culture.