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Art

The Landscape of Words

The first study devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China - texts carved into boulders and cliffs that are now part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest

Author: Robert E. Harrist

Publisher:

ISBN: UOM:39015077666546

Category: Art

Page: 397

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The first study devoted to one of the most visually distinctive features of the landscape in China - texts carved into boulders and cliffs that are now part of the natural terrain at thousands of sites of historic or scenic interest
2008 By Robert E. Harrist
Literary Criticism

A landscape of words

This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing.

Author: Amy C. Mulligan

Publisher: Manchester University Press

ISBN: 9781526141125

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 264

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Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place – developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes – in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.
2019-05-14 By Amy C. Mulligan
Literary Criticism

A landscape of words

This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing.

Author: Amy Mulligan

Publisher: Oxford University Press

ISBN: 9781526141125

Category: Literary Criticism

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Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place - developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes - in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.
2019-07-01 By Amy Mulligan
English literature

A Landscape of Words

Author: Amy Mulligan

Publisher: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture

ISBN: 1526141108

Category: English literature

Page: 264

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Living on an island at the edge of the known world, the medieval Irish were in a unique position to examine the spaces of the North Atlantic region and contemplate how geography can shape a people. This book is the first full-length study of medieval Irish topographical writing. It situates the theories and poetics of Irish place - developed over six centuries in response to a variety of political, cultural, religious and economic changes - in the bigger theoretical picture of studies of space, landscape, environmental writing and postcolonial identity construction. Presenting focused studies of important literary texts by authors from Ireland and Britain, it shows how these discourses influenced European conceptions of place and identity, as well as understandings of how to write the world.
2019-05-02 By Amy Mulligan
History

Words for Country

This work answers this question and more, while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language.

Author: Tim Bonyhady

Publisher: UNSW Press

ISBN: 0868406287

Category: History

Page: 253

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Stories and phrases can powerfully shape the ways in which we experience and manage our environment. What languages have been used to characterize Australian landscapes and how have they influenced the way we see and treat our environment? This work answers this question and more, while exploring the inter-relationship between Australia's landscape and language. It covers a collection of essays whose subjects range from the Ord River in the far north-west to Antarctica in the south, from the center to the coast, the prehistoric to the present. Its terrain is both environmental and cultural, political and poetic.
2002 By Tim Bonyhady
Language Arts & Disciplines

The Landscape of Lexicography

This book consists of a series of papers that look at three different aspects of the landscape as seen in dictionaries from across Europe.

Author: Alina Villalva

Publisher: Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa - Centro de Línguas, Literaturas e Culturas da universidade de Aveiro

ISBN: 9789899866652

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines

Page: 365

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This book consists of a series of papers that look at three different aspects of the landscape as seen in dictionaries from across Europe. Multilingual diachronic case studies into lexicographical descriptions of flora, landscape features and colours concentrate on three supposedly simple words: daisies (Bellis perenis L.), hills and the colour red. The work is part of the ongoing LandLex initiative, originally developed as part of the COST ENeL - European Network for e-Lexicography - action. The group brings together researchers in lexicography and lexicology from across Europe and is dedicated to studying multilingual and diachronic issues in language. It aims to valorise the wealth of European language diversity as found in dictionaries by developing and testing new digital annotation tools and a historical morphological dictionary prototype. Funded by the Horizon 2020 Framework Programme of the European Union
2019-08-01 By Alina Villalva
Poetry

Walking in a Landscape of Words

Whether we describe it as poetry in prose, free verse, or some other genre, one thing is certain Walking in a Landscape of Words is a story about the workings of the mind, its inherent problems, what it would take to go beyond it, and what ...

Author: Pamela Hoxsey

Publisher: Edwin House Pub Incorporated

ISBN: 0964924722

Category: Poetry

Page: 86

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Whether we describe it as poetry in prose, free verse, or some other genre, one thing is certain Walking in a Landscape of Words is a story about the workings of the mind, its inherent problems, what it would take to go beyond it, and what happens when it ceases its constant activity, if even for a brief moment. The poet goes instantly, not gradually, to the heart of the matter of our common human predicament. An existential journey, a series of koan-like metaphysical riddles.
1998 By Pamela Hoxsey
English language

Away with Words

In this brilliant collection, Ruth Wajnryb entertainingly explores, examines and explains why our language works the way it does.

Author: Ruth Wajnryb

Publisher:

ISBN: 0733315461

Category: English language

Page: 328

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It's usual to think that meaning is contained in words, the way sardines come in tins or milk in bottles. Words are things you can look up in a dictionary. But dictionaries only take you so far. The meaning of language is also found in how it is used: in grammar, in the 'DNA' of the words used, their context (business? social? political? romantic? economic?), the influences that affect changes in the way words are used, even in the way they are delivered. In this brilliant collection, Ruth Wajnryb entertainingly explores, examines and explains why our language works the way it does.
2005 By Ruth Wajnryb
Literary Criticism

Art Craft and Theology in Fourth Century Christian Authors

It is clear that for Gregory words can have a profound effect: they do things to
people and they change things. Gregory also uses ekphrasis to emphasize the 'fit
' between the lover/the Word and the landscape: the beauty and order of the ...

Author: Morwenna Ludlow

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

ISBN: 9780198848837

Category: Literary Criticism

Page: 288

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Art, Craft, and Theology in Fourth-Century Christian Authors analyses Christian Greek literature in the fourth century in order to emphasise the style, ingenuity, and craftsmanship demonstrated by the authors of such texts. It considers the way these 'wordsmiths' used classical literature techniques to strengthen their theological writings.
2020-09-30 By Morwenna Ludlow
Landscape architecture

Landscape 100 Words to Inhabit it

Intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form: terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes.

Author: Daniela Colafranceschi

Publisher:

ISBN: 8425221757

Category: Landscape architecture

Page: 208

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Intends to present a condition of contemporary landscape by measuring it through a direct and immediate form: terms, definitions, ideas, microstories, short texts, notes. This title is a collection of instant snaps rather than a complete critical and theoretical look at the subject.
2007 By Daniela Colafranceschi

The Athenaeum

We perspire naturally , as in our sleep ; warmth and exercise make us sweat .
The word perspiration , not exciting any indelicate idea , is substituted for sweat ,
when such idea is to be shunned , That lady perspires with dancing . Landscape .

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ISBN: IOWA:31858029258682

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Medical

The Anthropology of Landscape

In other words , Umeda , and languages like Umeda , are phonologically iconic ,
because they evoke a reality which is itself ' heard ' and imagined in the auditory
code , whereas languages like English are non - iconic because they evoke a ...

Author: Eric Hirsch

Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

ISBN: 9780198280101

Category: Medical

Page: 268

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Articles by Morphy and Layton annotated separately.
1995 By Eric Hirsch
English language

English Synonyms Discriminated

To the english * words lordship , friendship , kinship , brothership , partnership ,
correspond the german words herrschaft , freundschaft , verwandtschaft ,
bruderschaft , gesellschaft . To this class of words belongs landscape : it is
collateral with ...

Author: William Taylor

Publisher:

ISBN: NYPL:33433069238651

Category: English language

Page: 312

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1856 By William Taylor
American periodicals

The Theological and Literary Journal

When it is said , for example , the landscape smiles , the word landscape
denoting the subject of the proposition is used literally ; and the figure lies in the
use of the verb smiles , which properly signifies a movement or condition of the
human ...

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ISBN: HARVARD:AH6L31

Category: American periodicals

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Australian poetry

The Landscape of Australian Poetry

As words that are worthless go westward , Yet the worst word shall be as the best
word , In the day when all riot sweeps restward In darkness or light . A Dedication
may have been written hastily . It opens very abruptly : They19 are rhymes ...

Author: Brian Robinson Elliott

Publisher:

ISBN: UCAL:$B120028

Category: Australian poetry

Page: 346

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1967 By Brian Robinson Elliott
Architecture

American Architect and Architecture

TH A REPORT UPON THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE train , and , upon
arrival , were presently taken to examine in ... the advantages , in respect to
scenery , of the Lake Shore . of words did not approve of the term " landscape
gardening ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: UVA:X001788871

Category: Architecture

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Architecture

The American Architect and Building News

JI " A REPORT UPON THE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE train , and , upon
arrival , were presently taken to examine in ... the advantages , in respect to
scenery , of the Lake Shore . of words did not approve of the term " landscape
gardening ...

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Publisher:

ISBN: IOWA:31858055199214

Category: Architecture

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Nature

Landmarks

Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place.

Author: Robert Macfarlane

Publisher: Penguin UK

ISBN: 9780241967867

Category: Nature

Page: 448

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2015 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016 Landmarks is Robert Macfarlane's joyous meditation on words, landscape and the relationship between the two. Words are grained into our landscapes, and landscapes are grained into our words. Landmarks is about the power of language to shape our sense of place. It is a field guide to the literature of nature, and a glossary containing thousands of remarkable words used in England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales to describe land, nature and weather. Travelling from Cumbria to the Cairngorms, and exploring the landscapes of Roger Deakin, J. A. Baker, Nan Shepherd and others, Robert Macfarlane shows that language, well used, is a keen way of knowing landscape, and a vital means of coming to love it. Praise for Robert Macfarlane: 'He has a poet's eye and a prose style that will make many a novelist burn with envy' John Banville, Observer "I'll read anything Macfarlane writes" David Mitchell, Independent 'Every movement needs stars. In [Macfarlane] we surely have one, burning brighter with each book.' Telegraph '[Macfarlane] is a godfather of a cultural moment' Sunday Times
2015-03-05 By Robert Macfarlane
Social Science

The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma

In a letter the following day, Howard (1937i) explains his stiff and formal
language in the previous letter, inquiring, “Please see what you can do about
Hicks as he stood here and looked over my shoulder and saw every word that
wrote. He was ...

Author: Amanda L. Regnier

Publisher: University Alabama Press

ISBN: 9780817320256

Category: Social Science

Page: 392

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Revisits and updates WPA-funded archaeological research on key Oklahoma mound sites As part of Great Depression relief projects started in the 1930s, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) sponsored massive archaeological projects across Oklahoma. The WPA crews excavated eight mound sites and dozens of nonmound residential sites in the Arkansas River Valley that date between AD 1000 and 1450. These sites are considered the westernmost representations of Mississippian culture in the Southeast. The results of these excavations were documented in field journals and photographs prepared by the field supervisors and submitted in a series of quarterly reports to WPA headquarters. These reports contain a wealth of unpublished information summarizing excavations at the mound sites and residential sites, including mound profiles, burial descriptions, house maps, artifact tables, and artifact sketches. Of the excavated mound sites, results from only one, Spiro, have been extensively studied and synthesized in academic literature. The seven additional WPA-excavated mound sites—Norman, Hughes, Brackett, Eufaula, Skidgel, Reed, and Lillie Creek—are known to archaeologists outside of Oklahoma only as unlabeled points on maps of mound sites in the Southeast. The Ritual Landscape of Late Precontact Eastern Oklahoma curates and contextualizes the results of the WPA excavations, showing how they inform archaeological understanding of Mississippian occupation in the Arkansas Valley. Regnier, Hammerstedt, and Savage also relate the history and experiences of practicing archaeology in the 1930s, incorporating colorful excerpts from field journals of the young, inexperienced archaeologists. Finally, the authors update current knowledge of mound and nonmound sites in the region, providing an excellent example of historical archaeology.
2019-08-27 By Amanda L. Regnier
English language

Uncommon Ground

He began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter and cowbelly. In this book he gathers them into a glossary of the British landscape.

Author: Dominick Tyler

Publisher: Guardian Faber Publishing

ISBN: 1783350482

Category: English language

Page: 247

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'Out ... over the hill and then down the dip and through some lumpy bits.' This was how the author used to describe the places he roamed during his childhood in rural Cornwall. He began collecting words for landscape features, words like jackstraw, zawn, clitter and cowbelly. In this book he gathers them into a glossary of the British landscape.
2015 By Dominick Tyler

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