“…Touching on archaeology, art history, literary studies and anthropology, the book provides history students with a fundamental understanding of the relationship between artefacts and historical narratives. …”

“…With intellectual agility and command of cinema, literature and visual art, Daniele Rugo insists on the critical significance of Nancy's project for any future philosophy attempting to define itself beyond foundational acts, and according to the continuous crossings at the heart of existence. …”

“…Rocking the conventions of what is considered 'costume', 'Hollywood Costume' reveals what is hidden in plain sight: that films are about people and it is the art of the costume designer who helps create those characters. …”

“…Combining theoretical perspectives from analytic philosophy, cognitive theory, and narratology with approaches from phenomenology, psychosemiotics, and social semiotics, the contributions collected in this volume provide a state-of-the-art map of current research on a wide variety of ways in which subjectivity can be represented across conventionally distinct media…”

“…Over time this transformation empowered imperial women, transformed the cult of the Virgin Mary, fueled contests between church and state, and provoked an arresting synthesis of imperial and Christian art. With balanced analysis, Angelova presents a fresh argument about the symbolic logic of Roman rule and uncovers forgotten legacies that profoundly shaped the Christian era…”

“…The author provides suggestions for how humanists might begin to utilize these scientific discoveries without conceding that science has the last word on morality, religion, art, and literature. Calling into question such deeply entrenched dogmas as the 'blank slate' theory of nature, strong social constructivism, and the ideal of disembodied reason, What Science Offers the Humanities replaces the human-sciences divide with a more integrated approach to the study of culture…”

“…In Managing Creativity, a team of experts from a diverse range of fields - including management, fine art, music, the internet, design, theatre and publishing - discuss these and other problems concerning the relationship between management and creativity. …”
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“…Themes treated include politics and the royal court, military expansion, the church, the law, literature, art and architecture. "Charlemagne's Heir" opens up many new perspectives on the reign of Louis the Pious…”

“…Many other authors' works become part of the book's general argument about how cultures are made, how they figure both themselves and other cultures, and how they mutually interact (when they do) through productions of what the author calls the 'fictive imagination' - what in the West is called 'art' but in different cultures may take different names and serve different purposes…”

“…In this handbook, renowned scholars from a range of backgrounds provide a state of the art review of key developmental findings in language acquisition. …”

“…The complexities and effects of emotions are explored in a variety of forms--political rhetoric, literature, personal letters, medical writing, cinema, graphic art, soap opera, journalism, popular music, digital media--with attention paid to broader European and transatlantic implications"…”

“…El autor parte de este anhelo, y en un viaje sorprendente por varias disciplinas -filosofía, psicología, sociología, historia del arte y religión- muestra con claridad lo que hemos perdido. …”

“…This timely volume brings together expert scholars and curators to examine the reasons behind fashion's popularity in the twenty-first century museum and the impact this has had on wider museum practice.Chapters explore the role of fashion in the museum across a range of international case studies including the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Fashion Museum at Bath, ModeMuseum in Antwerp and many more. …”

“…The four short works in Untimely Meditations were published by Nietzsche between 1873 and 1876.They deal with such broad topics as the relationship between popular and genuine culture, strategies for cultural reform, the task of philosophy, the nature of education, and the relationship between art, science and life. They also include Nietzsche's earliest statement of his own understanding of human selfhood as a process of endlessly 'becoming who one is'. …”

“…El estudio analiza cada fenómeno tanto por separado como parte de la historia de la literatura antigua y atañe a las preguntas más fundamentales sobre la concepción del lenguaje, la interacción de la producción literaria y la recepción, la relación de los géneros literarios y no literarios de la escritura, la naturaleza de arte, etc. Por lo tanto, combina un enfoque literario con los problemas de otros ..…”

“…Arranged thematically, each part highlights how memory cannot be studied in isolation, but instead intersects with many other areas of medieval scholarship, including art history, historiography, intellectual history, and the study of religious culture. …”

“…Le rapport qu'il assume à celle-ci peut s'entendre par analogie avec les parties célèbres où les joueurs d'échec apprennent leur art: un bon joueur, instruit de l'histoire des échecs, reconnaît aux premiers coups l'ouverture choisie par son adversaire. …”

“…La figura y la obra de Robert Walser llevan décadas inspirando a escritores y lectores de todo el mundo, incluido Thomas Hirschhorn, uno de los más innovadores artistas visuales contemporáneos, para quien el autor suizo es una figura capital, un escritor que se resiste a que le apliquen la etiqueta de «escritor», alguien para quien el concepto de arte está siempre conectado con un personalísimo punto de vista, sistemáticamente alejado del establishment. …”

“…Otro Japón es una historia real narrada a través del dibujo a partir de los viajes de dos jóvenes estudiantes de arte, japonesa y español, en los años 70. Dos países, Oriente y Occidente, y una historia de amor y conocimiento que termina abruptamente. …”

“…Cada uno de los ensayos, firmado por especialistas y académicos con vocación interdisciplinar, incursiona en áreas diversas como la literatura, la historia del arte, la antropología, la etnohistoria o el marco legal que debe tejerse para proteger el rico patrimonio cultural de Iberoamérica."…”