Added by: visan | Karma: 894.32 | Other | 13 January 2010
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Ray Charles - America The Beautiful
Videoclip from the movie "Piano blues" directed by Clint Eastwood as the seventh installment of the documentary film series "The Blues" produced by Martin Scorsese.
World Literature and Its Times, Volume 1 Latin American Literature and Its Times: Profiles of Notable Literary Works and the Historical Events That Influenced Them Latin American literature attracted unprecedented global attention in the 1960s, a volatile period in the region, one in which many of its residents were upset or challenged by the success of revolution in Cuba. Debate raged furiously across national borders, calling into question relationships long regarded as inviolable, with writers factoring themselves into the political and ...
The last half century has produced an increasing interest in semiotics, the study of signs. As an interdisciplinary field, moreover, semiotics has produced a vast literature from many different points of view. As the discourse has expanded, clear definitions and goals become more elusive. Semioticians still lack a unified theory of the purposes of semiotics as a discipline as well as a comprehensive rationale for the4 linking of semiosis at the levels of culture, society, and nature. As Deely suggests in his preface, the image of the modern semiotic universe is the same as that of astronomy in 1611 as suggested by John Donne: "Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; / All just supply, and all Relation."
This short, cogent, philosophically oriented book outlines and analyzes the basic concepts of semiotics in a coherent, overall framework.
Children's literature has transcended linguistic and cultural borders since books and magazines for young readers were first produced, with popular books translated throughout the world.
- COVER: John McCain: Honor Bound - Ho-nor: (noun) honesty, fairness or integrity in one's beliefs and actions. It's John McCain's greatest strength...and his greatest weakness
- McCain's Prickly TIME Interview - In a Q&A the GOP candidate denies — at times testily — that his campaign has strayed from the Straight Talk Express
- SOCIETY: Fifty States of Wine - It's now being produced from sea to shining sea.
- PEOPLE: 10 Questions for Tom Wolfe - The '60s classic The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test celebrates its 40th anniversary.
