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Record Nr.

UNINA9910838266003321

Autore

Bassie-Sweet Karen <1952->

Titolo

Maya Narrative Arts / Karen Bassie-Sweet and Nicholas A. Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boulder : , : University Press of Colorado, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-60732-742-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

972.81

Soggetti

Inscriptions, Mayan

Monuments - Mexico - Palenque (Chiapas)

Narrative art - Mexico

Mayas - Antiquities

Electronic books.

Palenque (Chiapas, Mexico) Antiquities

Mexico Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The creator grandparents and the place of duality -- The family of the creator grandparents and complementary opposition -- The calendar and the narrative time frame -- The literary nature of Mayan texts, ancient and modern -- Text and image -- The Palenque Tablet of the 96 Glyphs -- The narrative of the Palenque Temple of the Inscriptions sarcophagus -- The Palenque Cross Group narrative.

Sommario/riassunto

"A comprehensive and innovative analysis of the principles of Classic Maya narrative arts and applying those principles to major Palenque monuments. Demonstrating recent methodological shifts in the examination of art and inscriptions away from technical issues and toward the poetics and narratives of texts including relationships between images"--Provided by publisher.