Описание: Enter the world of myth behind Outlander, from the Fair Folk and the Loch Ness monster to the magic and lore of standing stones and the pagan Sun Feasts that control them. Reach into the original legends of culture hero Fionn Mac Cumhaill and the prophecy of the Brahan Seer that inspire parts of the saga.
Автор: Lawler James R. Название: The Language of French Symbolism ISBN: 0691621705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691621708 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 5544.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The traits that characterize the "language" of French Symbolism are the center of these essays. In interpreting major or previously neglected compositions by Mallarme, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Claudel, Valery, and Apollinaire, the author shows how each of these poets worked with the elements that distinguish this influential group of writers as a whole.
Thisbook offers an interpretation of Yoruba people’s affective responses to anadult Yoruba male with a ‘deviant’ hairstyle. The work, which views hairstylesas a form of symbolic communicative signal that encodes messages that areperceived and interpreted within a culture, provides an ontological andepistemological interpretation of Yoruba beliefs regarding dreadlocks withreal-life illustrations of their treatment of an adult male with what they termirun were (insane person’s hairdo). Based on experiential observationsas well as socio-cultural and linguistic analyses, the book explores thedynamism of Yoruba worldview regarding head-hair within contemporary beliefsystems and discusses some of the factors that assure its continuity. Itconcludes with a cross-cultural comparison of the perceptions of dreadlocks,especially between Nigerian Yoruba people and African American Yorubapractitioners.
Описание: The archaeologist John Romilly Allen delivered the Rhind lectures of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in 1885, and published them in this highly illustrated book in 1887, offering a particular focus on the Celtic crosses of Ireland, and the meaning of the sculpture on their faces, shafts and bases.
Автор: Avril Pyman Название: A History of Russian Symbolism ISBN: 0521024307 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521024303 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 8237.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. It reassesses the Symbolists` achievements in the light of modern research, focusing on their literary works. Prose is quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations.
Описание: In this interdisciplinary study of eighteenth-century England, Patricia Fara explores how natural philosophers constructed magnetism as a science, appropriating the skills and knowledge of experienced navigators. For people of this period, magnetic phenomena reverberated with the symbolism of occult mystery, sexual attraction, and universal sympath
Автор: Koonce Benjamin Granade, Koonce B. G. Название: Chaucer and the Tradition of Fame: Symbolism in the House of Fame ISBN: 0691623902 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691623900 Издательство: Wiley Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The author`s aim is to "restore to the reading of the poem a background of medieval meanings familiar enough to Chaucer`s contemporary reader but almost lost to the modem." Mr. Koonce believes that fame was a clearly defined Christian concept in the Middle Ages, and his interpretation of Chaucer`s allegory proceeds from that central focus. Origina
Автор: Ognjenovic Название: Politicization of Religion, The Power of Symbolism ISBN: 1137484128 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137484123 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book examines the role religion played in the dismantling of Yugoslavia; addressing practical concerns of inter-ethnic fighting, religiously-motivated warfare, and the role religion played within the dissolution of the nation.
Автор: Pyman Название: A History of Russian Symbolism ISBN: 0521241987 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521241984 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 19008.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book is the first detailed history of the Russian Symbolist movement, which served as the seedbed of Existentialism and Modernism in Russia. It reassesses the Symbolists` achievements in the light of modern research, focusing on their literary works. Prose is quoted in English translation and poetry given in the original Russian with prose translations.
Описание: This book was first published in 1981. The theories of Wagner and Nietzsche provide the basic principles for this volume, disseminated by the work of Appia and Craig, and affecting the later plays of Ibsen, Maeterlinck, and Lugne-Poe`s Theatre de Le`Oeuvre.
Автор: Boyer Название: Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism ISBN: 0521438705 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521438704 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: How are religious ideas presented, acquired and transmitted? The present book is a contribution to this ambitious programme. In closely focused essays, a group of anthropologists debate the particular nature of religious concepts and categories, and begin to specify the cognitive constraints on cultural acquisition and transmission.
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