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Author : Li-tsui Flora Fu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Representation of Famous Mountains written by Li-tsui Flora Fu and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Li-Tsui Flora Fu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book The Representation of Famous Mountains written by Li-Tsui Flora Fu and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Li-tsui Flora Fu
Publisher : Chinese University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789629963293
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (632 download)
Download or read book Framing Famous Mountains written by Li-tsui Flora Fu and published by Chinese University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Treating landscape painting as yet another framing systems, in both the symbolic and material sense, this book examines sixteenth-century paintings of famous mountains by three major artists in the light of a diachronic account of the evolution of famous mountains over time and a synchronic account of the vogue for the grand tour in late Ming society." --Book Jacket.
Author : Françoise Besson
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527554031
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Mountains Figured and Disfigured in the English-Speaking World written by Françoise Besson and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book, written by poets, novelists, mountain-climbers and academics from all over the world, evoke the representation of mountains in the English-speaking world as artists, writers, philosophers or mountain-climbers have represented them from the sixteenth to the twenty-first centuries. From the Alps to the Pyrenees, from Mount Fuji to Mount Shasta, from the Himalayas to the Scottish Highlands, from Ikere in Nigeria to Devil's Tower in the United States, from Uluru in Australia to the most northern mountain of the Arctic, the shapes of the world speak the same language and tell the world its own story. This interdisciplinary book, weaving together mountaineering, literature, philosophy, painting, cinema, ecology, history, palaeontology, geography, geopolitics, toponymy, law, religion and myth, invites people to an innovative reading of mountains: it reveals the close relationship existing between the shapes of the world and all forms of writing and, at the same time, it shows how the representations of the imagination may be instrumental in protecting the natural world. The story told by the landscape inscribes a broken line in the shapes of the world, tearing the landscape like a fragile page whenever historical and political events (wars, mining or deforestation) leave scars in the landscape; but writers' and artists' representations of mountains constitute a path to awareness as they are not only a painting of beauty, but an image of our link to nature and a warning as well. For centuries the image of the mountain has conveyed a symbolism telling the story of human thought, and this book shows to what extent literature and art play an essential part in our awareness of nature.
Author : Jenny Hall
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1837642753
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (376 download)
Download or read book The Mountain and the Politics of Representation written by Jenny Hall and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2023-11-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories we tell, published or otherwise, condition our mountain experiences in practice and reinforce cultural memory and representation. Yet, as this book and the authors within it set out to demonstrate, if we look beyond the boundaries of this ‘singular white history’ there is a rich diversity of stories to tell. This volume contributes to a growing body of scholarship that calls for a heterogeneity of voices in mountain memoir genres. For the first time, this diverse scholarship interrogates how mountaineering literary and media culture impact bodies, spaces, and places, in order to nuance how commodification intersects across social categories and is embodied in multi-dimensional ways. In this volume, we explore a burgeoning tradition of mountaineering literature, of cinema and of memoir to appreciate difference, beyond the habitual heroic, white male, adventurer that dominates screens and bookshelves. Through exploring multidimensional axes of social differentiation from gender, race, class, and age to dis/ability and sexuality, the book will demonstrate how commodification is embodied through representation in mountaineering literature, media, film and memoir in mountaineering spaces. Amongst our aims, this book intends to understand how multiple social dimensions overlap and work to produce independent systems of exclusion and inclusion that focus on untraditional ways to be a mountaineer.
Author : Stephen Denison Peet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal written by Stephen Denison Peet and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chün-fang Yü
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231502753
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Kuan-yin written by Chün-fang Yü and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2001-03-22 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By far one of the most important objects of worship in the Buddhist traditions, the bodhisattva Avalokitesvara is regarded as the embodiment of compassion. He has been widely revered throughout the Buddhist countries of Asia since the early centuries of the Common Era. While he was closely identified with the royalty in South and Southeast Asia, and the Tibetans continue to this day to view the Dalai Lamas as his incarnations, in China he became a she—Kuan-yin, the "Goddess of Mercy"—and has a very different history. The causes and processes of this metamorphosis have perplexed Buddhist scholars for centuries. In this groundbreaking, comprehensive study, Chün-fang Yü discusses this dramatic transformation of the (male) Indian bodhisattva Avalokitesvara into the (female) Chinese Kuan-yin—from a relatively minor figure in the Buddha's retinue to a universal savior and one of the most popular deities in Chinese religion. Focusing on the various media through which the feminine Kuan-yin became constructed and domesticated in China, Yü thoroughly examines Buddhist scriptures, miracle stories, pilgrimages, popular literature, and monastic and local gazetteers—as well as the changing iconography reflected in Kuan-yin's images and artistic representations—to determine the role this material played in this amazing transformation. The book eloquently depicts the domestication of Kuan-yin as a case study of the indigenization of Buddhism in China and illuminates the ways this beloved deity has affected the lives of all Chinese people down the ages.
Author : Kyūya Fukada
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824847857
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (248 download)
Download or read book One Hundred Mountains of Japan written by Kyūya Fukada and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-12-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The more deeply you go into a long-held tradition, the more secrets and surprises it yields up. Mighty Ontake is like that. The mountain’s inexhaustible treasury of riches is like some endless storybook with its pages uncut. As one follows the rambling plot along, one is always looking forward to reading more. Every page yields things never found in other books. Ontake is that kind of mountain.” One Hundred Mountains is that kind of book. “Nowhere in the world do people hold mountains in so much regard as in Japan,” observed the author, Kyūya Fukada, in the afterword to his most famous work. “Mountains have played a part in Japanese history since the country’s beginnings, and they manifest themselves in every form of art. For mountains have always formed the bedrock of the Japanese soul.” In One Hundred Mountains, Fukada pays tribute to his favorite summits. Published in 1964, the book became an instant classic. Consisting of one hundred short essays, each celebrating one notable mountain and its place in Japan’s traditions, the book is an elegantly written eulogy to the landscape, literature, and history that define a people. More recently, Japan’s national broadcasting company has turned it into a memorable TV series. Fukada himself was bemused by his book’s success: “In the end, the one hundred mountains represent my personal choice and I make no claims for them beyond that.” Yet, half a century after he set down those words, his mountains have become a cultural institution. Marked on every hiking map and enshrined in scores of spin-off books, his One Hundred Mountains are today firmly embedded in the mountain traditions they grew out of. Now available in English for the first time, One Hundred Mountains of Japan will serve as a vade mecum to the Japanese mountains for a new cohort of hikers and mountaineers. It will also open up novel territories for students of Japan’s literature, folklore, religions, and mountaineering history—in short, for mountain-lovers everywhere.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1020 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Montana and Portions of Adjacent Territories written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1020 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jules Michelet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The mountain. From the Fr., by the transl. of 'The bird' written by Jules Michelet and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Ruskin
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Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book pt.V: Of mountain beauty written by John Ruskin and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carl Theophilus Odhner
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Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Correspondences of Canaan written by Carl Theophilus Odhner and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1066 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 1st -12th Annual Report of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories ... written by Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 1066 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
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Total Pages : 818 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Scribner's Magazine written by Edward Livermore Burlingame and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ed Viesturs
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145169475X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book The Mountain written by Ed Viesturs and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In national bestseller The Mountain, world-renowned climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs and cowriter David Roberts paint a vivid portrait of obsession, dedication, and human achievement in a true love letter to the world’s highest peak. In The Mountain, veteran world-class climber and bestselling author Ed Viesturs—the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks—trains his sights on Mount Everest in richly detailed accounts of expeditions that are by turns personal, harrowing, deadly, and inspiring. The highest mountain on earth, Everest remains the ultimate goal for serious high-altitude climbers. Viesturs has gone on eleven expeditions to Everest, spending more than two years of his life on the mountain and reaching the summit seven times. No climber today is better poised to survey Everest’s various ascents—both personal and historic. Viesturs sheds light on the fate of Mallory and Irvine, whose 1924 disappearance just 800 feet from the summit remains one of mountaineering’s greatest mysteries, as well as the multiply tragic last days of Rob Hall and Scott Fischer in 1996, the stuff of which Into Thin Air was made. Informed by the experience of one who has truly been there, The Mountain affords a rare glimpse into that place on earth where Heraclitus’s maxim—“Character is destiny”—is proved time and again.
Author : Willem S. Prinslo
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467453692
Total Pages : 1672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)
Download or read book Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible: Psalms written by Willem S. Prinslo and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This extract from the Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible provides Prinslo’s introduction to and concise commentary on Psalms. The Eerdmans Commentary on the Bible presents, in nontechnical language, the best of modern scholarship on each book of the Bible, including the Apocrypha. Reader-friendly commentary complements succinct summaries of each section of the text and will be valuable to scholars, students, and general readers. Rather than attempt a verse-by-verse analysis, these volumes work from larger sense units, highlighting the place of each passage within the overarching biblical story. Commentators focus on the genre of each text—parable, prophetic oracle, legal code, and so on—interpreting within the historical and literary context. The volumes also address major issues within each biblical book—including the range of possible interpretations—and refer readers to the best resources for further discussions.
