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Displace
editor-in-chief Mindaugas Gapševičius | editors Lina Rukeviciūtė and John Hopkins
Arts - performing | visual Vilnius Academy of Arts Press 9786094471438 Available
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Other title information: a Migrating Art Academies compendium of ideas
Annotation: This book - the third Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) publication - marks the end of the third phrase of the MigAA program, whcih over the course of seven years has grown into a dynamic an vital network of art academis and universities, independent arts organizations, many hundreds of people, and endless ideas. [...] Conducted over the last four years, phase three has seen an expanded and evolved MigAA network implementing a radican new scheme for creative collaboration and learning. This phase has explored the process of develping ideas while being displaced: away from one's usual environmnet at school, work, and home and far from family and friends. This volume, subtly titled Displace, traces the wide-randing results of this latest MigAA phase.
Identifier: 9786094471438
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Greimas close and far
Karolis Rimtautas Kašponis
General Semiotics Naujasis Lankas 9789955038702 Available
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Parallel title: Parallel title: Greimas arti ir toli
Annotation: Algirdas Julien Greimas (born Algirdas Julius Greimas) is one the most prominent creators of semiotics who laid the foundations of the Paris School of Semiotics known all over the world. He was also a famous linguist who researched Lithuanian mythology. Algirdas Julien Greimas is one of the most prominent Lithuanians in the international world of science, in many aspects compared to Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. The greatest influence on the life and works of Greimas came from French culture renowned for its science, literature and art. Nevertheless, the time spent in Lithuania was also significant. Greimas himself viewed Lithuanian and western (French) periods of his life as correlation between two cultures. Therefore, every moment of his life is important to us, each moment contributing to the whole picture and enriching his life. Neither Greimas' childhood nor his youth which is the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs is reviewed in literature. Various authors tend to start writing Greimas'biography starting from his years in Vytautas Magnus University. Professor Eero Tarasti, the president of the International Association for Semiotic Studies, offered me to prepare a work about Greimas' life in Lithuania. As I myself studied in Kupiškis and knew a lot of things about the Greimas family, I decided to look at Greimas'childhood period in Kupiškis. The sources I used in this work are as follows: Greimas' words about his childhood, national and personal archives, press of those days and stories told by those who knew the Greimas family.My experience with exceptionally gifted children in National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art in Vilnius and consulting with famous scientist has helped me to discuss the genesis of intellectual and aesthetic signs in Greimas' biography. As for the form of the work, I have chosen to use the form of an exposition with elements of a poster presentation, which allowed me to participate in significant scientific forums in France, Finland, Russia and China. In Lithuania, in those places where Greimas lived, my exposition contributed to the studies of his biography, organisation of conferences and dedication to Greimas. As it turned out, the prestigious gymnasiums where Greimas studied in Šiauliai and Marijampolė established in 1851 and 1867 have raised about half (9 out of 20) of those who signed the Act of Independence of Lithuania on 16 February 1918 and 12 out of 100 most outstanding persons in Lithuania in a millennium. In this respect these two gymnasiums are the only ones in Lithuania. It should also be mentioned that Greimas attended lectures in Vytautas Magnus University by famous Lithuanian scientists Mykolas Romeris, Vladas Jurgutis, Vosylius Sezemanas and Jonas Bučas who later contributed to laying the foundation for the science of semiotics.
Identifier: 9789955038702
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Accomplishing Permanency
Elizabeth Fernandez
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400750913 Available
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Other title information: Reunification Pathways and Outcomes for Foster Children
Annotation: Reunification is a primary goal of foster care systems and the most common permanency planning decision. It is defined as the return of children placed in protective care to the home of their birth family and used to describe the act of restoring a child in out-of-home care back to the biological family. Yet reunification decision-making and the process of reintegrating children into birth families remains under researched. This Brief takes a look at family reunification knowledge and research in Australia where there is evidence that most children placed in protective care are eventually reunited with their birth parents. It explores how a knowledge of reunification decision making and outcomes can contribute to strengthening practice and informing policy formulation and program planning in Child Welfare.
Identifier: 9789400750913
Status: Available
Crossing Boundaries
edited by Giuseppina Marsico | Koji Komatsu and Antonio Iannaccone
Social IAP Information Age Publishing 9781623963941 Available
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Other title information: Intercontextual Dynamics Between Family and School
Notes: editor of the series Jaan Valsiner
Annotation: Crossing Boundaries is an invitation to cultural psychology of educational processes to overcome the limits of existing educational psychology. Emphasizing social locomotion and the dynamic processes, the book try to capture the ambiguous richness of the transit from one context to another, of the symbolic perspective that accompanies the dialogue between family and school, of practicies regulating the interstitial space between these different social systems.
Identifier: 9781623963941
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The Semiotics of Law in Legal Education
edited by Jan M. Broekman | Francis J. Mootz
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- 1 edition
Social Springer Dordrecht 9789400713406 Available
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Annotation: This book offers educational experiences, including reflections and the resulting essays, from the Roberta Kevelson Seminar on Law and Semiotics held during 2008 – 2011 at Penn State University’s Dickinson School of Law. The texts address educational aspects of law that require attention and that also are issues in traditional jurisprudence and legal theory. The book introduces education in legal semiotics as it evolves in a legal curriculum. Specific semiotic concepts, such as “sign”, “symbol” or “legal language,” demonstrate how a lawyer’s professionally important tasks of name-giving and meaning-giving are seldom completely understood by lawyers or laypeople. These concepts require analyses of considerable depth to understand the expressiveness of these legal names and meanings, and to understand how lawyers can “say the law,” or urge such a saying correctly and effectively in the context of a natural language that is understandable to all of us. The book brings together the structure of the Seminar, its foundational philosophical problems, the specifics of legal history, and the semiotics of the legal system with specific themes such as gender, family law, and business law.
Identifier: 9789400713406
Status: Available
New science
Giambattista Vico
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- 3 edition
Philosophy Penguin Book 0140435697 Available
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
Status: Available
Infinite Jest
David Foster Wallace
Literature Abacus 9780349121086 Available
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Annotation: A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America. Set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do.
Identifier: 9780349121086
Status: Available
Performance and family in the world of British circus
YORAM S. CARMELI
In: Semiotica 1991, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.257
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1991.85.3-4.257
The Matrix of Narrative
Denis Joannes
Literature Mouton de Gruyter 0899256244 Available
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Other title information: Family Systems and Semiotics of Story
Annotation: The study which follows proposes a reconstruction of semiotic theory of narrative in light of certain current accounts – psychoanalytic, Proppian, feminist, deconstructive – of the story-telling process. Starting from classical semiotic assumptions – that fictional narrative constitutes a discursive field rather than simply a collocation of texts –, the discussion isolates relational patterns informing various modellings of the story process, outlines a framework for integrating these into a matrix of combinational possibilities and suggests on that basis some vantage points from which to address a number of still pending issues within narrative studies.
Identifier: 0899256244
Status: Available
THE MASTER TROPES OF DREAMING: RHETORIC AS A FAMILY AFFAIR
Sara Steinberg
In: The American Journal of Semiotics 1986, Volume 4, Issue 3/4
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- 29-51
The American Journal of Semiotics
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The family camps out: A study in nonverbal communication
JEFFREY E. NASH
In: Semiotica 1982, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.331
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1982.39.3-4.331