10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COUNTERWORLD»
Discover the use of
counterworld in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
counterworld and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Essential Readings in Biosemiotics: Anthology and Commentary
Psyche as Translator of “Counterworld” into World How are we to imagine the
psyche? The answer is: our psyche is a translator. The “neural counterworld”,
which our brain composes of the signs streaming into it on different nerve tracts
from ...
2
Redeeming Laughter: The Comic Dimension of Human Experience
In an earlier discussion of folly the point was made that it constitutes a magical
transformation of the world, or more precisely, an act of magic by which a
counterworld is made to appear. This counterworld serves to illuminate the
realities of the ...
physiognomic or, as we should say, a “pseudo-magic counterworld." Thus the
physiognomic is here given as an energy-symbolizing "un-form"-—-that threatens
and repels. Effective threat and repulsion are the physiognomic criteria of the ...
Rollo May, Ernest Angel, Henri F. Ellenberger, 1994
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Texts Under Negotiation: The Bible and Postmodern Imagination
Chapter. 2. The. Counterworld. of. Evangelical. Imagination. IN A Postmodern
World where neither the old orthodoxies nor the more recent positivisms will hold,
the preacher's chance (both task and opportunity) is to construct, with and for the
...
5
The Red Fez: Art and Spirit Possession in Africa
Beside the structural equivalence between the forests as a counterworld to the
settlement, and the grasslands as a counterworld to the forest regions of Asante,
two further elements can be advanced which help explain the custom of
importing ...
6
Junk: Art and the Politics of Trash
53 The phenomenon of 'play' offers another 'counterworld' related tothesurreal
and imaginary world constructed by both artist and comedian. Comedy plays with
the verbal and the visual, facilitating an emigration–an interlude –from thereality ...
7
Friendship, Descent and Alliance in Africa: Anthropological ...
However, just as there are Moose and Fulbe in the world of the living, the
counterworld is also inhabited by Moose and Fulbe (and other kinkirse), and so it
is possible that a Pullo kinkirga can enter the womb of a Moaga woman.16 A
newborn ...
Martine Guichard, Tilo Gratz, Youssouf Diallo, 2014
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Sacred Modern: Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil ...
Philip Fisher argues that the museum operates most seductively in offering itself
as a counterworld to the banality of mass-produced commodities. “As objects
become more short-lived and geared to obsolescence, or rather to an ongoing ...
9
Arguing with God: A Theological Anthropology of the Psalms
Over time, religious systems develop that offer the individuals prospects of a
beautiful afterlife; the counterworld depicted in this way thereby assumes the
position of an orienting force, which relativizes existence. The realm of death thus
...
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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
... counterimages real and to create a counterworld through the medium of
symbols. The world of Egyptian mortuary religion was indeed a counterworld. But
what was special, and perhaps unique, about this Egyptian counterworld is that it
was ...
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COUNTERWORLD»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
counterworld is used in the context of the following news items.
The lure of the fairy tale.
In keeping with those positions, he believes that fairy tales, because they are grounded in a naïve morality, offer us a “counterworld,” which ... «New Yorker, Jul 12»
Behind Murakami's Mirror
Tengo and Aomame fall out of the ordinary world into a counterworld, 1Q84, shadowed everywhere by Sakigake and its goons. Although ... «The New York Review of Books, Nov 11»
Bruno Weber
Weber, who started work on the project in 1962, envisaged his park as a “visionary counterworld” to the “concrete deserts” of the industrial ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 11»
Sushi and Samurai: Western Stereotypes and the (Mis …
At a time when European lives were becoming ever more determined by rationalism, we construed a counterworld filled with spirituality. Let me give you an ... «Japan Focus, Jul 11»
Margaret Atwood's Tale
... science fiction but rather “speculative fiction”: a psychologically “realistic” and persuasive exploration of a counterworld bearing a significant if ... «The New York Review of Books, Oct 06»
