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Book 2006.0

Music and the Arts

edited by Eero Tarasti

Edition
1 edition

Music International Semiotics Institiute 9525431096 Available

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Other title information: Volume II

Annotation: Music, in some forms, declares itself autonomous and absolute. But semiotics has taught us that no sign system can function alone, isolated from other texts. Correspondences and interrelationships of arts have always been fertile soil from which musical meanings to grow. Thus, among the topics of these proceedings, one finds music and painting, ekphrasis, interpretation, semiotic theory of music, pragmatism, aesthetics, topics, narrativity, music and media, opera, cinema, literature, music history, hermeneutics, dance and music psychology. Musical Signification is a world-wide research project that tries to open new avenues for an innovative science of music as a meaningful practice throughout the ages.

Identifier: 9525431096

Status: Available

Book 2001.0

New science

Giambattista Vico

Edition
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

Book 1990.0

Semiotics, Romanticism and the Scriptures

Jacques M. Chevalier

Literature Mouton de Gruyter 3110122243 Available

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Annotation: This book centres on Longfellow's well-known poem Evangeline, first published in 1847, and the biblical ancestry of its heroine. We shall read this romance against a backdrop of scriptural images of the model woman of the Old and New Testaments.

Identifier: 3110122243

Status: Available