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Author : Charles F. Barnard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Magic Sign written by Charles F. Barnard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nigel Pennick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620553163
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book The Book of Primal Signs written by Nigel Pennick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-16 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth study of the sacred meanings behind ancient and enduring symbols • Explains the multiple forms and uses of symbols from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in folk magic and the Western Mystery tradition • Examines more than 40 glyphs, such as the cross, fleur de lis, and pentagram, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks and runes • Includes more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced From ancient rock and cave art to the contemporary brand logos of politics and business, human beings have always created symbols to denote specific ideas, groups, or important objects as well as to convey deeper information than can be communicated in words. Many glyphs have retained their meanings over millennia whereas some have modern meanings vastly different from the original connotation. In this study of symbols, Nigel Pennick explores glyphs as agents of higher consciousness and ports of access to the collective unconscious, acknowledging the continuity of tradition, both deliberate and not, as well as how interpretations of some symbols, such as the swastika, have changed dramatically. With more than 300 unique woodcuts, drawings, calligraphy, and photographs--many never before reproduced--Pennick examines ancient and enduring glyphs in detail, such as the circle, cross, eye, pentagram, fleur de lis, tree of life, and horseshoe, as well as several families of symbols, such as craftsmen’s marks, runes, symbolic beasts, human heads and skulls, and the sigils of Mammon. The author explains the multiple forms and uses of each from ancient times to the present day, reflecting their roots in the Western Mystery tradition. He explores the symbols of high magic such as the glyph of John Dee’s monad, those of folk magic such as the traditional cock on the weather vane, and the creation of modern glyphs such as the peace sign and the anarchy symbol. Contrasting the hi-jacked use of power symbols in modern advertising with the vital role of symbols in traditional arts and crafts, Pennick reveals how symbols link the cosmic with the terrestrial and allow us to infuse the mundane with the numinous.
Author : David Copperfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982112913
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (821 download)
Download or read book David Copperfield's History of Magic written by David Copperfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this personal journey through a unique performing art, David Copperfield profiles some of the world's most groundbreaking magicians. From the sixteenth-century magistrate who wrote an early book on conjuring, to the roaring twenties and the man who fooled Houdini, to the woman who levitated, vanished, and caught bullets in her bare hands, David Copperfield's History of Magic takes you on a wild journey through the remarkable feats of some of the greatest magicians in history. The result is a sweeping tale that reveals how these astonishing performers were outsiders who used magic to escape class, challenge conventions, transform popular culture, explore the innermost workings of the human mind, and inspire scientific discovery. Their incredible stories are complemented by more than 100 never-before-seen photographs of artifacts from Copperfield's exclusive Museum of Magic, including a sixteenth-century manual on sleight-of-hand; Houdini's straitjackets, handcuffs, and water torture chamber; Dante's famous sawing-in-half apparatus; Alexander's high-tech turban that allowed him to read people's minds; and even some coins that may have magically passed through the hands of Abraham Lincoln. By the end of the book, you'll be sure to share Copperfield's passion for the power of magic. --
Author : Frederick Goodman
Publisher : Brian Trodd Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781853610226
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Magic Symbols written by Frederick Goodman and published by Brian Trodd Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cathie Devitt
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 178535602X
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Don't Doubt the Magic! written by Cathie Devitt and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bernice O'Hanlon is a contemporary witch with a troubled but determined soul, raised on a small Scottish island and now living in Glasgow. Follow Bernice as she tackles the issues which face her in her search for contentment. Can she finally use the tools she has always possessed and take the leap into her potential? Don't Doubt the Magic is the second book in Cathie Devitt’s trilogy of novellas about the life of Bernice O'Hanlon. Book one was a FINALIST AT THE PEOPLE'S BOOK PRIZE 2014/15.
Author : Winfried Nöth
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253116082
Total Pages : 592 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (531 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Semiotics written by Winfried Nöth and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1990-09-22 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is the most systematic discussion of semiotics yet published." —Choice "A bravura performance." —Thomas Sebeok "Nöth's handbook is an outstanding encyclopedia that provides first-rate information on many facets of sign-related studies, research results, and applications." —Social Sciences in General
Author : Matthias Egeler
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197747361
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Landscape, Religion, and the Supernatural written by Matthias Egeler and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first study to tackle the relationship between landscape and religion in-depth. Author Matthias Egeler overviews previous theories of the relationship between landscape and religion and then pushes this theorizing further with a rich case study: the supernatural landscape of the Icelandic Westfjords. There, religion and the supernatural--from churches to elf hills--are ubiquitous in the landscape and, as Egeler shows, this example sheds entirely new light on core aspects of the relationship between landscape, religion, and the supernatural.
Author : Thomas M. Greene
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138801
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (388 download)
Download or read book Poetry, Signs, and Magic written by Thomas M. Greene and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry, Signs, and Magic brings together in a single volume fourteen new and previously published essays by the eminent Renaissance scholar and literary critic Thomas M. Greene. This collection looks back toward two earlier volumes by Greene, his first essay collection The Vulnerable Text: Essays on Renaissance Literature, and Poesie et Magie, whose theme is here explored again at greater length and depth, from linguistic and literary critical perspectives. Greene argues that certain poetic gestures draw their peculiar strengths by serving as vestiges of poetry's ancestral acts - magic, prayer, and invocation. Poetry, in other words, feigns an earlier power, but in this diminishment there occurs a verbal subtlety, and figural poignancy, commonly associated with art's aesthetic pleasures. Greene employs his well-known skills as a close reader to texts by a range of writers including a variety of contemporary theorists. in diverse contexts the distinction between disjunctive and conjunctive linguistics, dual theories of sound and meaning of crucial importance to Plato and Aristotle, to Catholic and Protestant debates on the sacraments, to the more recent skeptical methodologies of Derrida and de Man. Thomas M. Greene was a Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Yale University.
Author : Doga CAKIR
Publisher : Erkan Çakır
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book The Red Dragon written by Doga CAKIR and published by Erkan Çakır. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loria is a dragon unaware of the properties of the magic mark on her neck. However, her whole life will change when Palda, an evil dragon she has met before, appears. She has to stop the storm that Palda started with the help of her two new friends, Frozan and Golda. And the only solution to this is to destroy Palda. With the disappearance of her friends one night, Loria, who had to get away from the forest she had always known and lived on, encounters secret and adventures she never knew ...
Author : Melanie Maria Lörke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3050064536
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Liminal Semiotics written by Melanie Maria Lörke and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grenzen, ihre Überschreitung, ihre Auflösung und ihre Wiederherstellung sind ein bisher nicht systematisch erforschtes Schlüsselkonzept für das Verständnis romantischer Literatur. Diese semiotisch-komparatistische Grundsatzstudie analysiert über drei Kulturräume hinweg vergleichend eine Vielfalt heterogener literarischer Entgrenzungsphänomene in der Romantik und entwickelt auf der Basis der romantischen Zeichentheorie ein Modell für die Analyse transepochaler Entgrenzungsphänomene. Dabei geht sie über bekannte Konzepte des paradoxen Subjekts hinaus, indem Entgrenzung als Interdependenz von Subjekt, Raum und Zeichen umfassend in detaillierten Lektüren literarischer Texte aus Deutschland, den USA und Großbritannien sowie in theoretischen Exkursen untersucht wird - von Novalis und Coleridge über Melville bis hin zu Deleuze und Guattari. Die Arbeit ist somit nicht nur ein Beitrag zur Romantikforschung, sondern lotet auch die methodologischen Möglichkeiten derselben neu aus. Die Studie wurde 2012 mit dem von der Ernst-Reuter-Gesellschaft der Freunde, Förderer und Ehemaligen der Freien Universität Berlin e.V. gestifteten Ernst-Reuter-Preis als herausragende und zukunftsweisende Promotionsarbeit ausgezeichnet. Boundaries constitute a key concept in Romanticism: their transgression, their elimination, but also their reconstruction. By analyzing the triad of sign, subject, and space, this study provides a comprehensive analysis of boundaries in German, English, and American Romanticism. Its trans-epochal approach reveals a shared dynamic of a multiplicity of heterogeneous boundary phenomena ranging from the late 18th century to postmodern Romantic texts and constructs a model for the examination of limits: a theory of a-limitation. The known concept of the transgressive Romantic subject is integrated into this triadic model whose primordial site of a-limitation, however, is the semiotics of Romanticism. With a creative theoretical design that allows the reader to survey readings of individual texts as well as broader theoretical frameworks, "Liminal Semiotics" offers a new perspective on a variety of literary texts and theories ranging from Novalis and Coleridge to Melville and finally to Deleuze and Guattari. The thesis was awarded the Ernst-Reuter-Prize 2012 for outstanding dissertations at Freie Universität Berlin.
Author : E S Carpenter
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1620324326
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Explorations 6 written by E S Carpenter and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explorations: Studies in Culture and Communication, principally edited by Edmund Carpenter and Marshall McLuhan, was the first postwar journal to engage directly with the new "grammars" of mid-century new media of communication. Launched in Toronto in 1953, at the very moment that television made its national debut in Canada, Explorations presented a mosaic of approaches to contemporary media culture and became the site in which McLuhan and Carpenter first formulated their most striking insights about new media in the electric age. The extraordinary breadth of contributions to Explorations from leading thinkers across the arts, humanities, social and natural sciences makes this journal a founding publication in the now burgeoning field of media studies. Originally funded by a Ford Foundation grant, the eight coedited issues of Explorations ran from 1953 to 1957 and are reprinted here for the first time in sixty years. For a listing of all articles in this series, refer to the Summaries at the end of the series introduction.
Author : Carolyn L. Kane
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392612
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Electrographic Architecture written by Carolyn L. Kane and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridging histories of technology, media studies, and aesthetics, Electrographic Architecture forges a critical narrative of the ways in which illuminated light and color have played key roles in the formation of America's white imaginary. Carolyn L. Kane charts the rise of the country's urban advertisements, light empires, and neoclassical buildings in the early twentieth century; the midcentury construction of polychromatic electrographic spectacles; and their eclipse by informatically intense, invisible algorithms at the dawn of the new millennium. Drawing on archival research, interviews, and visual analysis, Electrographic Architecture shows how the development of America's electrographic surround runs parallel to a new paradigm of power, property, and possession.
Author : Stephen E. Flowers
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620554062
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Icelandic Magic written by Stephen E. Flowers and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-22 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical guide to the magical systems of pre-Christian Iceland • Reveals spells and workings drawn directly from surviving magical books from the 16th to 20th century preserved at the National Library in Reykjavík • Explores the history of magic in Iceland through original translations of Icelandic folktales about famous magicians and about legendary grimoires, such as the Galdrabók, the oldest and most complete book of its kind • Explains how to personalize the spells through the creation of unique signs and symbols based on the mythic names of Odin and Icelandic magical alphabets During the Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages, many books of magic were lost as the ancient pagan traditions were suppressed. But in Iceland the practice of recording magical spells in books continued in secret for centuries, on a scale not seen elsewhere. Now housed in the National Library in Reykjavík, these surviving grimoires, which represent only a hundredth of what was lost, reveal a rich magical tradition that continued to evolve into the 20th century. Drawing directly from the actual surviving Icelandic books of magic, Stephen Flowers presents a complete system of magic based on Icelandic lore and magical practices from the 16th century onward. He explores the history of magic in Iceland in pagan and early Christian times and reveals specific practical techniques and ritual templates that readers can adapt to their unique purposes. Illustrating traditional Icelandic magical practices and the Icelanders’ attitudes toward them, he shares original translations of Icelandic folktales about famous magicians, such as the legend of Gray-Skin, and about legendary grimoires, such as the Galdrabók, the oldest and most complete book of its kind. After initiating the reader into the grammar and symbols of Icelandic magic through history and lore, Flowers then presents an extensive catalog of actual spells and magical workings from the historical Icelandic books of magic. These examples provide ready-made forms for practical experimentation as well as an exemplary guide on how to create signs and symbols for more personalized magical work. The author also includes guidance on creating unique magical signs from the 100 mythic names of Odin, which he translates and interprets magically, and from Icelandic magical alphabets, symbols that connect Icelandic magic to the ancient runic tradition.
Author : Verónica Heiland
Publisher : Editorial Autores de Argentina
ISBN 13 : 9878748626
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (787 download)
Download or read book Being Medicine written by Verónica Heiland and published by Editorial Autores de Argentina. This book was released on 2024-02-28 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Being medicine" is the author's second edited work about Ho'oponopono. The premise of the work is that, with the help of this hawaiian tool, every being and every one of us can make use of their innate potential to be one's own medicine. This medicine is necessary for our spiritual progression. Ho'oponopono is the key to healing through the pillars of feeling, forgiveness, love and gratitude. This book will teach you how to heal based on these four pillars of Being. Easy and simple to use tools of divine wisdom will be available for you to use so that you may resolve situations and conflicts which might prove difficult during the development of your Being.
Author : Marco Frascari
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317280156
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Marco Frascari's Dream House written by Marco Frascari and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last book from Marco Frascari Strong introduction by Federica Goffi makes the book more accessible to the student audience Marco’s sketchbooks are faithfully reproduced in full colour
Author : Eva Aldea
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441109986
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Magical Realism and Deleuze written by Eva Aldea and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >
Author : Simon J. Richter
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571132635
Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (326 download)
Download or read book Goethe Yearbook 11 written by Simon J. Richter and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2002-12 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eighteen new articles on the works of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit, along with the customary book review section. The Goethe Yearbook is a publication of the Goethe Society of North America. It publishes original contributions to the understanding of Goethe and other authors of the Goethezeit. Its book review section evaluates awide selection of publications on the period, and is important for all scholars of 18th-century literature. The eighteen articles in this volume treat a wide range of topics. The volume opens with the last work of the late StuartAtkins, on Renaissance and Baroque elements in Faust, and proceeds to a critical appreciation of the Goethe scholarship of the late Géza von Molnár, before offering Molnár's last essay, also on Faust. A number of articles explore questions of the "Ich," the Ego, and subjectivity in the writings of Goethe and of others of his age such as Rousseau, Moritz, Fichte, and Novalis. Three articles deal with Faust, one with Götz von Berlichingen's Weislingen, one with the genealogy of the poem 'Auf dem See, ' and one with Egmont. An article focuses on the women figures in Wilhelm Meister, and there is a short story titled 'Mignon' by Irmgard ElsnerHunt. Other articles explore Grillparzer's Sappho, Wilhelm Müller's Lieder der Griechen, and Karls Enkel's Dahin! Dahin! Ein Göte-Abend. There is also a Laudatio to Daniel Barenboim in addition to the customary book review section. Contributors: Stewart Atkins, Katharina Mommsen, Peter Fenves, Géza von Molnár, Fritz Breithaupt, Anthony Krupp, Elliott Schreiber, Edgar Landgraf, Horst Lange, Volker Kaiser, Rainer Nägele, Martha B. Helfer, Marion Schmaus, Brigitte Prutti, Charles A. Grair, Lorna Fitzsimmons, Irmgard Elsner Hunt. Book review editor is Martha B. Helfer. Simon J. Richter is associate professor of German at the Universityof Pennsylvania.
