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"In contrast to the role traditionally fulfilled by secular rulers, the pope has been perceived as an individual person existing in a body subject to decay and death, yet at the same time a corporeal representation of Christ and the Church, eternity and salvation. Using an array…
This is Barthes' seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of 'Mythologies', a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and…
This is Barthes' seminal text reimagined in a contemporary context by contemporary academics. Through a revisiting of Mythologies, a key text in cultural and media studies, this volume explores the value these disciplines can add to an understanding of contemporary society and c…
"Since its first publication in 1984, Denis E. Cosgrove's Social Formation and Symbolic Landscape has been influential well beyond geography. It has continued to spark lively debate among historians, geographers, art historians, social theorists, landscape architects, and others…
This is a study of masculinity as a metaphor and especially of the muscular male body as a moral symbol. It explores the Nazi's preoccupation with the male body as an icon of political power, and the ideology and theories which propelled it.--Amazon.com.
Senatorische Körper in der späten römischen Republik. Der turnende Marius: Körper und Status in Rom und Griechenland ; Die Wertschätzung des alters als Geringschätzung des Körpers ; Die normative Funktion römischer Kleidung ; Piso, Gabinius, und die Ambivalenz aristokratischer K…
Surveys the architecture of the Las Vegas Strip and examines the role of urban sprawl, advertising, and commercial iconography in contemporary building design.
Surveys the architecture of the Las Vegas Strip and examines the role of urban sprawl, advertising, and commercial iconography in contemporary building design.