Mundus Emblematicus

Mundus Emblematicus
Author: K. A. E. Enenkel,Arnoud S. Q. Visser
Publsiher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 410
Release: 2003
Genre: Art
ISBN: UOM:39015063663812

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The thirteen articles in this volume deal with the Neo-Latin emblem book after the birth of the genre with Andrea Alciato's Emblematum libellus (1531). While the interest in emblematics has grown considerably during the last decades, the seminal Neo-Latin production has received relatively little attention. In Mundus Emblematicus an international team of experts in the field makes this part of the emblem tradition accessible to a broad scholarly audience. The articles cover a variety of emblem books published at the time, ranging from influential humanist collections (for instance those by Achille Bocchi, Hadrianus Junius, or Joachim Camerarius) to alchemist (Michael Maier) or religious emblems (such as the books of the Calvinist Theodere de Beze, or the Jesuit Herman Hugo). In each paper subjects dealt with include the historical context of the work and its makers, the relation between word and image, the structure of the collection as a whole, and the emblematic game (intertextuality in word and image). Moreover, several articles explore the interaction between the emblem and connected literary phenomena, like the commonplace-book, the fable or the use of commentaries. All papers are in English and all examples from Latin texts are translated. Together, these articles show the variety within the Neo-Latin emblem production, thus challenging traditional approaches of the emblem. As such Mundus Emblematicus contributes towards a more comprehensive view of the forms and functions of the genre as a whole.

The Production of Space

The Production of Space
Author: Henri Lefebvre
Publsiher: Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1992-04-08
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0631181776

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Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its author's wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smith's sensitive translation precisely captures.

The Adult Learner

The Adult Learner
Author: Malcolm S. Knowles,Elwood F. Holton III,Richard A. Swanson,Petra A. Robinson
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 319
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781000072914

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How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning have been hugely influential and are still the basis of the learning practices we use today. Understanding these principles is the cornerstone of increasing motivation and enabling adult learners to achieve. The 9th edition of The Adult Learner has been revised to include: Updates to the book to reflect the very latest advancements in the field. The addition of two new chapters on diversity and inclusion in adult learning, and andragogy and the online adult learner. An updated supporting website. This website for the 9th edition of The Adult Learner will provide basic instructor aids. For each chapter, there will be a PowerPoint presentation, learning exercises, and added study questions. Revisions throughout to make it more readable and relevant to your practices. If you are a researcher, practitioner, or student in education, an adult learning practitioner, training manager, or involved in human resource development, this is the definitive book in adult learning you should not be without.

Distinction

Distinction
Author: Pierre Bourdieu
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 641
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781135873165

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Examines differences in taste between modern French classes, discusses the relationship between culture and politics, and outlines the strategies of pretension.

Architecture and Modern Literature

Architecture and Modern Literature
Author: David Spurr
Publsiher: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages: 300
Release: 2012-04-10
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780472051717

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Exploring the related cultural forms of architecture and literature in the modern era

Non places

Non places
Author: Marc Augé
Publsiher: Verso
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1859840515

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An ever-increasing proportion of our lives is spent in supermarkets, airports and hotels, on motorways or in front of TVs, computers and cash machines. This invasion of the world by what Marc Augé calls "non-space" results in a profound alteration of awareness: something we perceive, but only in a partial and incoherent manner. Augé uses the concept of "supermodernity" to describe a situation of excessive information and excessive space. In this fascinating essay he seeks to establish an intellectual armature for an anthropology of supermodernity.

Rabelais and His World

Rabelais and His World
Author: Mikhail Mikhaĭlovich Bakhtin
Publsiher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 520
Release: 1984
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0253203414

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This classic work by the Russian philosopher and literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975) examines popular humor and folk culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. One of the essential texts of a theorist who is rapidly becoming a major reference in contemporary thought, Rabelais and His World is essential reading for anyone interested in problems of language and text and in cultural interpretation.

Cinema The time image

Cinema  The time image
Author: Gilles Deleuze
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 366
Release: 1986
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0816616779

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Discusses the theoretical implications of the cinematographic image based on Henri Bergson's theories