10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHARAWAGGI»
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sharawaggi in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Dooble Tongue: Scots, Burns, Contradiction
The polymorphousness that Sharawaggi takes as both a point of departure and a
utopian revelation/ destination — the most transcendental of its signifiers —
functions in MacDiarmid more narrowly, as strategy or instrumental condition: not,
...
2
The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry
Gorman's reversal of the role of the translation is reminiscent of a different
experiment, two decades earlier, in which W N. Herbert (b. 1961) and Robert
Crawford, in their co-authored volume Sharawaggi (1990), plundered the Scots ...
3
The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
Postscript: sharawaggi. now. The current discourse on architectural urbanism is
dominated by the ideas of Rem Koolhaas, a fierce critic of the contextualism of
the later twentieth century. Koolhaas mounts two critiques of contextualism that ...
4
Reading Landscape: Country, City, Capital
Then it was called sharawaggi (Chinese for 'graceful disorder'). 'Adaptability to
site and sympathetic tolerance to extension and addition were desirable
attributes at a time of contingency building and economies of space.“ Sharawaggi
, in short ...
5
The Vision of China in the English Literature of the ...
details not found in Attiret (e.g. the mention of Miang Ting on page 30) prove that
Chambers was far from being a mere popularise r of Temple's Sharawaggi.
Besides irregularity and "serpentizing", there is another element in the
Sharawaggi ...
6
Beyond Identity: New Horizons in Modern Scottish Poetry
The kind of Scots we used was messy; it was going into all sorts of odd lexical
corners and stirring these up with four-letter words. It was a kind of “sharawaggi”,
an absolute mixture. This didn't go down well. But Peter Kravitz thought there was
...
7
The Critical Picturesque
William Temple in 1685 coined the expression- Sharawaggi, in his effort to
demonstrate an alternative to the Western notion of classical beauty. His
understanding of Chinese aesthetics, derived from descriptions by the missionary
Father Ricci ...
8
Building the Post-war World: Modern Architecture and ...
134 39 'Exterior Furniture or Sharawaggi: The Art of Making an Urban Landscape
', AR, Jan. 1944, p. 8. 40 'Price on Picturesque Planning', AR, Feb. 1944, pp. 47-
50; H.F. Clark, 'Lord Burlington's Bijou, or Sharawaggi at Chiswick', AR, May ...
9
Visual Planning and the Picturesque
From 1942 until 1946, however, Hastings and Pevsner ran the journal alone, a
collaborative setting from which Townscape's proto-manifesto, “Exterior
Furnishing or Sharawaggi,” emerged in 1944, along with a range of Pevsner's
introductions ...
Nikolaus Pevsner, Mathew Aitchison, 2010
The word is also called Sharawaggi, which may be a corruption of Sa-ro-kwai-chi
(meaning the quality of being surprising through graceful disorder), or San-Ian or
So-lu-wai-chi (meaning widely scattered or disorderly arrangement in short ...
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHARAWAGGI»
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In 1750, he wrote, "I am almost as fond of the Sharawaggi, or Chinese want of symmetry, in buildings, as in grounds or gardens.' It's a peculiarly British thing for ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
