"Religion: material dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, a…
Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. Physical features of texts that interest modernist writers, such as sound patterns and anagrams, cannot be dissociate…
At the turn of the sixteenth century, the notion of world was dramatically being reshaped, leaving no aspect of human experience untouched. The Nomadic Object: The Challenge of World for Early Modern Religious Art examines how sacred art and artefacts responded to the demands of…
"In The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self, Susan Harrow explores the interrelation of subjectivity, materiality, and representation in the poetry and related texts of four modern French writers: Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apolinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Reda." "Ha…
"Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, and provides an essential guide for those undertaking fieldwork in a range of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology, an…
"Analyzing Multimodal Interaction is a practical guide to understanding and investigating the multiple modes of communication, and provides an essential guide for those undertaking fieldwork in a range of disciplines, including linguistics, sociology, education, anthropology, an…
Critically approaching contemporary meanings of materiality, this text discusses ways in which we understand, experience and engage with objects through popular culture in our private, social and professional lives. Appropriating Arjun Appadurai's famous phrase: 'the social life…
