The Body as Medium and Metaphor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body as Medium and Metaphor write by Hannah Westley. This book was released on 2008. The Body as Medium and Metaphor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Reconsidering the relationship between autobiography and self-portraiture, The Body as Medium and Metaphor explores the intertextuality of self-representation in twentieth-century French art. Situating the body as the nexus of intersections between the written word and the visual image, this book rethinks the problematic status of the self. Starting at the twentieth-century's departure from figurative and mimetic representation, this study discusses the work of seminal artists and writers - including Marcel Duchamp, Michel Leiris, Francis Bacon, Bernard Noël, Gisèle Prassinos, Louise Bourgeois and Orlan - to articulate the twentieth century's radical revisions of subjectivity that originated from and returned to representations of the word, the image, and the body. This volume will be of interest to students of both French Literature and Art History, particularly those who are interested in the interdisciplinary exchanges between visual arts and literature.
The Body as a Medium of Expression
The Body as a Medium of Expression - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Body as a Medium of Expression write by Jonathan Benthall. This book was released on 1975. The Body as a Medium of Expression available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Body as Medium of Meaning
Body as Medium of Meaning - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Body as Medium of Meaning write by . This book was released on 2004. Body as Medium of Meaning available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bodies move, and they express. There is a body language, and there is a language employed to refer to the body, its parts, and the states of its being. Consciously and unconsciously people judge each other according to body and clothing behavior. What one thinks one expresses is not necessarily how one is seen and judged, and the variety of observations made of the body is diverse. Bodily behavior and interpretations of this behavior face change at frontiers of culture areas, or when cultures meet each other as a result of migration. This book addresses and expands upon these issues. Soheila Shahshahani teaches at the Shahid Beheshti University, Teheran, Iran.
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body
Event Structure Metaphors through the Body - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Event Structure Metaphors through the Body write by Daniel R. Roush. This book was released on 2018-06-15. Event Structure Metaphors through the Body available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How do the experiences of people who have different bodies (deaf versus hearing) shape their thoughts and metaphors? Do different linguistic modes of expression (signed versus spoken) have a shaping force as well? This book investigates the metaphorical production of culturally-Deaf translators who work from English to American Sign Language (ASL). It describes how Event Structure Metaphors are handled across languages of two different modalities. Through the use of corpus-based evidence, several specific questions are addressed: are the main branches of Event Structure Metaphors – the Location and Object branches – exhibited in ASL? Are these two branches adequate to explain the event-related linguistic metaphors identified in the translation corpus? To what extent do translators maintain, shift, add, and omit expressions of these metaphors? While answering these specific questions, this book makes a significant elaboration to the two-branch theory of Event Structure Metaphors. It raises larger questions of how bilinguals handle competing conceptualizations of events and contributes to emerging interest in how body specificity, linguistic modes, and cultural context affect metaphoric variability.
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Amusing Ourselves to Death - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Amusing Ourselves to Death write by Neil Postman. This book was released on 2005-12-27. Amusing Ourselves to Death available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What happens when media and politics become forms of entertainment? As our world begins to look more and more like Orwell's 1984, Neil's Postman's essential guide to the modern media is more relevant than ever. "It's unlikely that Trump has ever read Amusing Ourselves to Death, but his ascent would not have surprised Postman.” -CNN Originally published in 1985, Neil Postman’s groundbreaking polemic about the corrosive effects of television on our politics and public discourse has been hailed as a twenty-first-century book published in the twentieth century. Now, with television joined by more sophisticated electronic media—from the Internet to cell phones to DVDs—it has taken on even greater significance. Amusing Ourselves to Death is a prophetic look at what happens when politics, journalism, education, and even religion become subject to the demands of entertainment. It is also a blueprint for regaining control of our media, so that they can serve our highest goals. “A brilliant, powerful, and important book. This is an indictment that Postman has laid down and, so far as I can see, an irrefutable one.” –Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
