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This paper examines Dutch printmaker Jan Luyken’s visual strategy represented in his emblem book, Des Menschen Begin, Midden en Einde (1712). As a poet as well as a printmaker, Luyken wrote a poem in this book and produced image prints by himself.
Sooyun Sohn
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Transformation of Symbolism of a “Mountain/Hill” in John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress (19th–21st Centuries) [PDF]
The article analyzes the functioning of emblems in the text of the Baroque era and their evolution in retellings and adaptations of the Baroque text in the 19th– 21st centuries.
Maria R. Nenarokova
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On Conformal Properties of the Dualized Sigma-Models [PDF]
We have calculated the first-order beta-functions for a sigma-model ( with dilaton) dualized with respect to an arbitrary Lie group that acts without isotropy. We find that non-abelian duality preserves conformal invariance for semi-simple groups, but in
Bardakci +19 more
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In this paper Isabelle Felici presents the workshop Southern songs.
Isabelle Felici
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In the Eyes of the Beholder: Towards Depicting the Dog in the Nineteenth Century
In this paper I expand my work in The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination to argue that the empathetic depiction of dogs that established itself in literature and painting in the late eighteenth century, and continued to develop, represented less a new ...
Beryl Gray
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Antiquitized emblems of Andrea Alciato
Emblems are visible metaphors, a synthesis of words and images. They traditionally embodied simple earthly truths, moral standards, and political principles.
E.S. Danilov
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Discourse Emblems as the Object of Semiotic Analysis
The study deals with discourse emblems treated as recognizable identifying signs of communication participants. They occupy a certain place in a general system of semiotic interpretation of reality - they are indices characterizing the pragmatic vector ...
Vladimir I. Karasik
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The medieval speech on the cock, inherited partly from Latin authors, is spread through bestiaries. Its ambivalent symbolism oscillates between, on one side, its generosity and courage, on the other one, its loftiness and its lustful character.
Michel Pastoureau
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The Existence of The Blue Shield Emblem on Cultural Heritage Property in Armed Conflict
The intentional destruction of cultural heritage in armed conflict that is not used for military purposes causes the greatest losses of mankind. Lots of cultural properties have great value as the cultural heritage of mankind.
Mokhamad Gisa Vitrana +1 more
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Communicating hands: ERPs elicited by meaningful symbolic hand postures. [PDF]
Meaningful and meaningless hand postures were presented to subjects who had to carry out a semantic discrimination task while electrical brain responses were recorded. Both meaningful and control sets of hand postures were matched as closely as possible.
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