Download or read book Vehicles of Transmission Translation and Transformation in Medieval Textual Culture written by Robert Wisnovsky and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the McGill University Research Group on Transmission, Translation, and Transformation in Medieval Cultures and their collaborators initiate a new reflection on the dynamics involved in receiving texts and ideas from antiquity or from other contemporary cultures. For all their historic specificity, the western European, Arab/Islamic and Jewish civilizations of the Middle Ages were nonetheless co-participants in a complex web of cultural transmission that operated via translation and inevitably involved the transformation of what had been received. This three-fold process is what defines medieval intellectual history. Every act of transmission presumes the existence of some 'efficient cause' - a translation, a commentary, a book, a library, etc. Such vehicles of transmission, however, are not passive containers in which cultural products are transported. On the contrary: the vehicles themselves select, shape, and transform the material transmitted, making ancient or alien cultural products usable and attractive in another milieu. The case studies contained in this volume attempt to bring these larger processes into the foreground.They lay the groundwork for a new intellectual history of medieval civilizations in all their variety, based on the core premise that these shared not only a cultural heritage from antiquity but, more importantly, a broadly comparable 'operating system' for engaging with that heritage.Each was a culture of transmission, claiming ownership over the prestigious knowledge inherited from the past. Each depended on translation. Finally, each transformed what it appropriated.
Download or read book Negation Expectation and Ideology in Written Texts written by Lisa Nahajec and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2021-06-15 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During an election campaign in 2008, Ken Livingstone said to a newspaper reporter “this election is not a joke”. By doing so, he introduced an expectation into the discourse that someone does, in fact, think it is a joke. This book explores how it is that saying what is not the case communicates something about what is. Bringing together a focus on text with cognitive and pragmatic approaches, a case is made for an application of linguistic negation as a tool of analysis. This tool is used to explore the ideological implications of projecting or reflecting readerly expectations. This book contributes to the growing field of Critical stylistics and aims to add to the range of stylistic insights which anchor the analysis of discourse to a consideration of the nuances of language choice.
Download or read book Medieval Textual Cultures written by Faith Wallis and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes “available” for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated “ecology” of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.
Download or read book Textual Vehicles written by Roger N. Casey and published by Garland Science. This book was released on 1997 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines an American icon"Textual Vehicles" explores the position of the automobile in the mythologies of American literature through an analysis of the works of Sinclair, Lewis, Booth Tarkington, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Upton Sinclair, John Steinbeck, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner, Jack Kerouac, Flannery O'Connor, John Updike, Arna Bontemps, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, E. L. Doctorow, Harry Crews, John Dos Passos, and Joy Williams. The study also addresses the ways in which race, gender, and place have affected writer's perceptions and imagination of the car.Charts the development of a mythThe automobile unites the American fundamental ideologies of freedom and movement -- auto-mobility. The book begins with an examination of auto-mobility in literature prior to the invention of the car, and traces the evolution, through Lewis' novels in particular, of the automobile from romantic to satirical object. By the 1930s, the car had become essential to most Americans, such as Steinbeck's Joads, and had transfigured rural America, as evidenced by the works of Caldwell and Faulkner. During this period, the car attained increasingly complex literary signification -- the center of an intricate dialectic of attraction and repulsion. The mythical prominence assumed by the automobile after World War II was exemplified by Kerouac's On the Road. Updike's Rabbit novels chronicle the transformation of the image of the car to one of polluter and murderer in the wake of the social upheaval of the 1960s and the oil crisis of the 1970s.The automobile as paradoxAt the close of the century the car occupies an ambiguous and complex position in American culture, and literary responses tothe automobile have never been so multifarious. Harry Crews' Car and Joy Williams' Escapes exemplify the paradoxical role the automobile assumes in our present lives.
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Roman Transportation written by Jared Hudson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preamble : on the way -- Introduction : en route -- Making use : plaustrum -- Power steering : currus -- The other chariot : essedum -- Conveying women : carpentum -- Portable retreats : lectica -- Envoi : the end of the road.
Download or read book North American Free Trade Agreement Texts of Agreement Implementing Bill Statement of Administrative Action and Required Supporting Statements written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1780 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uruguay Round Trade Agreements Texts of Agreements Implementing Bill Statement of Administrative Action and Required Supporting Statements written by United States. President (1993-2001 : Clinton) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1948 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Tien Tai Lotus Texts written by Sylvain Chamberlain-Nyudo and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantum Life Buddhism study materials for the Threefold Lotus Kwoon school of Buddhist scholarship
Download or read book Nadi Texts Excerpts Predictive Methods written by Hemant Thakorbhai Bhatt and published by Sagar Publications. This book was released on with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nadi text deals with years of events extensively and this is nothing but the rotation of slow-moving planets progress in various signs meeting two factors for the occurrence of the event. So, you need to be comprehensively vigilant to apply this two-factor astrology with various options and exceptions. Also, there are many transit method prevails. This is the prime reason that you need lots of predictive methods to be kept on hand. It is better to tally this year reference with the age of planets or houses or navamsha ages which is given here in this book with many options for its practical applicability.
Download or read book Style and Form in Old Babylonian Literary Texts written by Nathan Wasserman and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing himself on a careful study of all hitherto published (and some unpublished) Old-Babylonian literary texts - roughly 270 different compositions of all literary genres - Dr. Wasserman systematically leads the reader to a number of insightful conclusions regarding distinctive style and outstanding features of the Old-Babylonian literary system (as opposed to everyday texts, such as letters). The three opening chapters - Hendiadys, Tamyīz, and Damqam-īnim - are mainly concerned with syntax, but also connections with inalienability, a semantic issue. Chapter four and five, Merismus and Simile, focus on semantics (though also including word order). The last chapter, Rhyming Couplets, is fully devoted to form, with elaborations on such semantic problems as performative speech acts. The concluding pages delineate the contours of the Old-Babylonian literary system; genres and 'genre-families', the dichotomy between oral and written traditions, and the distinction between learned and popular literature. With a detailed catalogue of all known literary Old-Babylonian compositions.
Download or read book Texts of Treaties Relating to the Panama Canal written by United States Department of State. Office of Media Services and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Human Machine Interface for Intelligent Vehicles written by Fusheng Jia and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2024-08-20 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human-Machine Systems Design and Evaluation Methodology for Intelligent Vehicles examines the fields of designing and developing intelligent design and intelligent vehicle driving evaluation by using virtual reality, augmented reality, and other technologies. The book explains the methodologies and systems of interactive design, user evaluation and testing using virtual reality technology and augmented reality technology in intelligent cockpit design. With the rising prominence of electric vehicles and automatic driving (assisted) technology, intelligent vehicles are becoming a reality. Compared to traditional interactive design, artificial intelligence provides new opportunities and challenges for the interactive design of intelligent cockpit space, especially under the condition of intelligent assisted driving, the driver's behavior performance, multimodal interactive display interface design and evaluation. - Focuses on the interactive design methods of intelligent vehicles, as well as forward-looking design and testing methods of intelligent vehicle design - Emphasizes that interactive design should be carried out using the relevant elements of intelligent system in the design of intelligent cars: starting from the interactive characteristics of intelligence itself - Starts from AI interactive design and combines the field of cognitive science to develop the methods and technologies of vehicle borne equipment and collaborative human-computer interaction design - Includes design cases from the intelligent car interaction design laboratory of Tongji University and related scientific research projects in China.
Download or read book Close Reading with Social Studies Paired Texts written by Lori Oczkus and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2015-06-26 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Use these paired texts to test your students' understanding of level K social studies! Students will also be assessed on their ability to evaluate and draw reasonable conclusions about the text.
Download or read book Tok Pisin Texts written by Peter Mühlhäusler and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2003-11-27 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tok Pisin is one of the most important languages of Melanesia and is used in a wide range of public and private functions in Papua New Guinea. The language has featured prominently in Pidgin and Creole linguistics and has featured in a number of debates in theoretical linguistics. With their extensive fieldwork experience and vast knowledge of the archives relating to Papua New Guinea, Peter Mühlhäusler, Thomas E. Dutton and Suzanne Romaine compiled this Tok Pisin text collection. It brings together representative samples of the largest Pidgin language of the Pacific area. These texts represent about 150 years of development of this language and will be an invaluable resource for researchers, language policy makers and individuals interested in the history of Papua New Guinea.
Download or read book Collective Defense Treaties with Maps Texts of Treaties a Chronology Status of Forces Agreements and Comparative Chart written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Everything Guide to Informational Texts K 2 written by Kathy H. Barclay and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your resource for best texts and best practices! Kathy Barclay and Laura Stewart have written the book that teachers like you have been pleading for—a resource that delivers the “what I need to know ” to engage kids in a significant amount of informational text reading experiences. No filler, no lofty ideals about college and career readiness, but instead, the information on how to find lesson-worthy texts and create developmentally appropriate instructional plans that truly help young readers comprehend grade-level texts. What you’ll love most: The how-to’s on selecting informational texts High-impact comprehension strategies Model text lessons and lesson plan templates An annotated list of 449 informational texts
