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Author : John Bulwer
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781498056915
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Chirologia written by John Bulwer and published by Literary Licensing, LLC. This book was released on 2014-03-30 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Is A New Release Of The Original 1644 Edition.
Author : Gilbert Austin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Chironomia; or, A treatise on rhetorical delivery written by Gilbert Austin and published by . This book was released on 1806 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adam Kendon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521542937
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (429 download)
Download or read book Gesture written by Adam Kendon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Brian Rotman
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822342007
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Becoming Beside Ourselves written by Brian Rotman and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-07-16 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVTheoretical study of the relationship between technoscience and the human body that examines the ways in which bodies and machines "speak" not just through language but also through gesture, numbers, and other non-alphabetic systems of expressio/div
Author : Michael Neill
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231113328
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)
Download or read book Putting History to the Question written by Michael Neill and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering dramatic works by Shakespeare, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, and others--and reflecting upon subjects ranging from social attitudes towards racial difference and adultery to the politics of mercantilism and the hierarchy of master/servant relationships--the book reenergizes the discussion of Renaissance drama and history.
Author : Peter Goodrich
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107035996
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Legal Emblems and the Art of Law written by Peter Goodrich and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The emblem book was invented by the humanist lawyer Andrea Alciato in 1531. The preponderance of juridical and normative themes, of images of rule and infraction, of obedience and error in the emblem books is critical to their purpose and interest. This book outlines the history of the emblem tradition as a juridical genre, along with the concept of, and training in, obiter depicta, in things seen along the way to judgment. It argues that these books depict norms and abuses in classically derived forms that become the visual standards of governance. Despite the plethora of vivid figures and virtual symbols that define and transmit law, contemporary lawyers are not trained in the critical apprehension of the visible. This book is the first to reconstruct the history of the emblem tradition, evidencing the extent to which a gallery of images of law already exists and structuring how the public realm is displayed, made present and viewed.
Author : John Bulwer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Anthropometamorphosis: man transform'd: or, The artificiall changling, scripsit J.B. written by John Bulwer and published by . This book was released on 1653 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jean-Christophe Agnew
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521379106
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (791 download)
Download or read book Worlds Apart written by Jean-Christophe Agnew and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a variety of disciplines and documents, Professor Agnew illuminates one of the most fascinating chapters in the formations of Anglo-American market culture. Worlds Apart traces the history of our concepts of the marketplace and the theatre and the ways in which these concepts are bound together. Focusing on Britain and America in the years 1550 to 1750, the book discusses the forms and conventions that structured both commerce and theatre. As marketing practice broke free of its traditional boundaries and restraints, it challenged longstanding popular assumptions about the constituents of value, the nature of identity, the signs of authenticity, and the limits of liability. New exchange relations bred new legal and commercial fictions to authorise them, but they also bred new doubts about the precise grounds upon which the self and its 'interests' were to be represented. Those same doubts, Professor Agnew shows, animated the theatre as well. As actors and playwrights shifted from ecclesiastical and civic drama to professional entertainments, they too devised authenticating fictions, fictions that effectively replicated the bewildering representational confusions of the new 'placeless market'.
Author : Jed Rasula
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262681315
Total Pages : 644 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (813 download)
Download or read book Imagining Language written by Jed Rasula and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When works such as Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Stein's Tender Buttons were first introduced, they went so far beyond prevailing linguistic standards that they were widely considered "unreadable," if not scandalous. Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery take these and other examples of twentieth-century avant-garde writing as the starting point for a collection of writings that demonstrates a continuum of creative conjecture on language from antiquity to the present. The anthology, which spans three millennia, generally bypasses chronology in order to illuminate unexpected congruities between seemingly discordant materials. Together, the writings celebrate the scope and prodigality of linguistic speculation in the West going back to the pre-Socratics.
Author : Richard Carew
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3734018455
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Survey of Cornwall written by Richard Carew and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: The Survey of Cornwall by Richard Carew
Author : Katherine Ellison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135197307X
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book A Material History of Medieval and Early Modern Ciphers written by Katherine Ellison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first cultural history of early modern cryptography, this collection brings together scholars in history, literature, music, the arts, mathematics, and computer science who study ciphering and deciphering from new materialist, media studies, cognitive studies, disability studies, and other theoretical perspectives. Essays analyze the material forms of ciphering as windows into the cultures of orality, manuscript, print, and publishing, revealing that early modern ciphering, and the complex history that preceded it in the medieval period, not only influenced political and military history but also played a central role in the emergence of the capitalist media state in the West, in religious reformation, and in the scientific revolution. Ciphered communication, whether in etched stone and bone, in musical notae, runic symbols, polyalphabetic substitution, algebraic equations, graphic typographies, or literary metaphors, took place in contested social spaces and offered a means of expression during times of political, economic, and personal upheaval. Ciphering shaped the early history of linguistics as a discipline, and it bridged theological and scientific rhetoric before and during the Reformation. Ciphering was an occult art, a mathematic language, and an aesthetic that influenced music, sculpture, painting, drama, poetry, and the early novel. This collection addresses gaps in cryptographic history, but more significantly, through cultural analyses of the rhetorical situations of ciphering and actual solved and unsolved medieval and early modern ciphers, it traces the influences of cryptographic writing and reading on literacy broadly defined as well as the cultures that generate, resist, and require that literacy. This volume offers a significant contribution to the history of the book, highlighting the broader cultural significance of textual materialities.
Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523875
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : John Bulwer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780598657527
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Philocophus written by John Bulwer and published by . This book was released on 1648 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Francois Caradec
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262547996
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)
Download or read book Dictionary of Gestures written by Francois Caradec and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated guide to more than 850 gestures and their meanings around the world, from a nod of the head to a click of the heels. Gestures convey meaning with a flourish. A vigorous nod of the head, a bold jut of the chin, an enthusiastic thumbs-up: all speak louder than words. Yet the same gesture may have different meanings in different parts of the world. What Americans understand as the “A-OK gesture,” for example, is an obscene insult in the Arab world. This volume is the reference book we didn't know we needed—an illustrated dictionary of 850 gestures and their meanings around the world. It catalogs voluntary gestures made to communicate openly—as distinct from sign language, dance moves, involuntary “tells,” or secret handshakes—and explains what the gesture conveys in a variety of locations. It is organized by body part, from top to bottom, from head (nodding, shaking, turning) to foot (scraping, kicking, playing footsie). We learn that “to oscillate the head while gently throwing it back” communicates approval in some countries even though it resembles the headshake of disapproval used in other countries; that “to tap a slightly inflated cheek” constitutes an erotic invitation when accompanied by a wink; that the middle finger pointed in the air signifies approval in South America. We may already know that it is a grave insult in the Middle East and Asia to display the sole of one's shoe, but perhaps not that motorcyclists sometimes greet each other by raising a foot. Illustrated with clever line drawings and documented with quotations from literature (the author, François Caradec, was a distinguished and prolific historian of literature, culture, and humorous oddities, as well as a novelist and poet), this dictionary offers readers unique lessons in polylingual meaning.
Author : Chris Mounsey
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838754771
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Presenting Gender written by Chris Mounsey and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that concerns writers or real people of the early modern period who presented their protagonists or themselves as members of the opposite biological sex. The collection demonstrates the variety of motives for such acts of gender passing, and offers interpretations that shed some light on the probable intentions of the gender passers.
Author : Laurinda S. Dixon
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501735764
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Perilous Chastity written by Laurinda S. Dixon and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bearing such titles as The Doctor's Visit or The Lovesick Maiden, certain seventeenth-century Dutch paintings are familiar to museum browsers: an attractive young woman—well dressed, but pale and listless—reclines in a chair, languishes in bed, or falls to the floor in a faint. Weathered crones or impish boys leer suggestively in the background. These paintings traditionally have been viewed as commentary on quack doctors or unmarried pregnant women. The first book to examine images of women and illness in the light of medical history, Perilous Chastity reveals a surprising new interpretation. In an engaging analysis enhanced by abundant illustrations-including eight pages of color plates—Laurinda S. Dixon shows how paintings reflect changing medical theories concerning women. While she illuminates a tradition stretching from antiquity to the present, she concentrates on art from the thirteenth through the eighteenth centuries, and particularly on paintings from seventeenth-century Leiden. Dixon suggests how the assumptions of a predominantly male medical establishment have influenced prevailing notions of women's social place. She traces the evolution of the belief that women's illnesses were caused by "hysteria," so named in ancient Greece after the notion that the uterus had a tendency to wander in the body. All women were considered prone to hysteria-strong emotions, idleness, intellectual activity, or unladylike pursuits could cause it—but it was most commonly diagnosed among celibates. Analyzing paintings of women's sickrooms by Jan Steen, Dirck Hals, Gabriel Metsu, Jacob Ochtervelt, Godfried Schalcken, Samuel van Hoogstraten, and Franz van Mieris, Dixon perceives metaphoric identifications of the womb as the source of illness. She also documents changing fashions in cures for hysteria and discusses allusions to the debilitating effects of women's passions not only in paintings, but also in madrigals by John Dowland and Henry Purcell. In conclusion, Dixon argues that her study has strong ramifications of attitudes towards women and illness today. She takes up images in twentieth-century culture as well and calls attention to a resurgence of female "hysteria" after World War II.
Author : Fred Gettings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780600004332
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)
Download or read book The Book of the Hand written by Fred Gettings and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
