1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910451719603321

Autore

Marling Karal Ann

Titolo

The colossus of roads [[electronic resource] ] : myth and symbol along the American highway / / Karal Ann Marling ; with an album of Minnesota photographs by Liz Harrison and additional photography by Bruce White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1984, 1985 printing

ISBN

0-8166-9206-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (153 p.)

Disciplina

745.0973

745/.0973

Soggetti

Folk art - United States - Psychological aspects

Symbolism in art - United States

Folklore - United States - Themes, motives

Popular culture - United States - Psychological aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes ibliography: p. [103]-126.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; TALL TALES, TRADEMARKS, AND THE GREAT GATSBY: Midwestern Space Defined; THE HOAX, THE AD, AND THE FRONTIER: Mythological Giants Arise to Fill the Vastness of the American West; ANXIETY, NOSTALGIA, AND WORLD'S FAIRS: Colossi Mark the Borders of a Modern America; FRONTIERS, HIGHWAYS, AND MINIATURE GOLF: The Tourist Becomes a Roadside Colossus; THE GREAT AMERICAN ROADSIDE: Tourist Sculpture in Minnesota; POSTCARDS, SOUVENIRS, AND COME-ONS: Wayside Giants Sell the American Dream; SCALE, PATRIOTISM, AND FUN: Crossing the Last Frontier of Fantasy

NICK CARRAWAY, PAUL BUNYAN, AND BABE, THE BLUE OX: Why Gatsby is ""Great""Notes; Minnesota Colossi; Other Colossi; Photo Album

Sommario/riassunto

A rich and lively examination of this curious and pervasive tradition.Karal Ann Marling visits dozens of roadside attractions, viewing them analytically, intellectually, and enthusiastically, tracing each one through folklore and literature. Heavily illustrated, this book takes the



reader on the road to examine these treasures and all that they represent.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910493166503321

Autore

Wood I. N (Ian N.), <1950->

Titolo

The transformation of the Roman West / / Ian Wood [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leeds : , : ARC Humanities Press, , 2018

ISBN

1-64189-908-5

1-942401-44-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 160 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Past imperfect

Disciplina

274/.02

Soggetti

Church and state - Europe - History - To 1500

Church history - Middle Ages, 600-1500

Rome History Empire, 284-476

Europe History 392-814

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Jan 2021).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-160).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction. The End of the West Roman Empire: From Decline and Fall to Transformation of the Roman World -- Chapter 1. Gibbon's Secondary Causes: "The Disorders of Military Despotism" and "the Division of Monarchy" -- Chapter 2. Barbarism: "The Invasion and Settlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia" -- Chapter 3. Religion and the Transformation of the Roman World -- Chapter 4. Religion: "The Rise, Establishment, and Sects of Christianity" -- Chapter 5. Religious Reaction to the Fall of Rome -- Chapter 6. Doctrinal Division -- Chapter 7. The Impact of Christianity: A Quantitative Approach -- Chapter 8. Clerics, Soldiers, Bureaucrats -- Chapter 9. Ecclesiastical Endowment -- Chapter 10. Beyond Gibbon and Rostovtzeff -- Appendix. Clerical Ordinations -- Further Reading -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

The history of the Late Roman Empire in the West has been divided into



two parallel worlds, analysed either as a political and economic transformation or as a religious and cultural one. But how do these relate one to another? In this concise and effective synthesis, Ian Wood considers some ways in which religion and the Church can be reintegrated into what has become a largely secular discourse. The Church was at the heart of the changes that look place at the end of the Western Empire, not only regarding religion, but indeed every aspect of politics and society. Wood contends that the institutionalisation of the Church on a huge scale was a key factor in the transformation which began in the early fourth century with an incipiently Christian Roman Empire and ended three hundred years later in a world of thoroughly Christianised kingdoms.