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Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle
| Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.5/37 |
| Collana | Religion in history, society and culture |
| Soggetto topico | Hindu mantras |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-135-88817-5
1-280-07996-7 0-203-48338-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Word and the World; Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic; Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation; The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras:Language, Canon, and Idolatry; The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language; The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual; Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451489903321 |
Yelle Robert A
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| New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle
| Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.5/37 |
| Collana | Religion in history, society and culture |
| Soggetto topico | Hindu mantras |
| ISBN |
1-135-88817-5
1-280-07996-7 0-203-48338-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Word and the World; Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic; Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation; The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras:Language, Canon, and Idolatry; The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language; The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual; Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783657403321 |
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Yelle Robert A
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| New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle
| Explaining mantras [[electronic resource] ] : ritual, rhetoric, and the dream of a natural language in Hindu tantra / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2003 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (190 p.) |
| Disciplina | 294.5/37 |
| Collana | Religion in history, society and culture |
| Soggetto topico | Hindu mantras |
| ISBN |
1-135-88817-5
1-280-07996-7 0-203-48338-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; Series Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Note on Translation; Introduction: The Word and the World; Opening the Puzzle Box: Mantras, Poetry, and Magic; Chanting the Cosmogony: Mantras as Diagrams of Creation; The Linguistic Ideology of the Tantras:Language, Canon, and Idolatry; The Science of Illusion, Part One: Poetry and the Dream of a Natural Language; The Science of Illusion, Part Two: The Rhetoric of Ritual; Toward a Genealogy of Ritual and Rhetoric: Iconophiles and Iconophobes; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910818264703321 |
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Yelle Robert A
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| New York, : Routledge, 2003 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle
| Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.2 |
| Collana | Bloomsbury advances in semiotics |
| Soggetto topico |
Semiotics - History
Religion - History Semiotics - Religious aspects Structuralism (Literary analysis) Representation (Philosophy) |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-4411-7237-8
1-283-85367-1 1-4411-6765-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Semiotics beyond structuralism ; Why a semiotics of religion?; A brief critical survey of some semiotic theories of religion; Semiotic recognition; Bringing history to the semiotics of religion; Outline of chapters; 2 The poetics of ritual performance ; Toward a theory of poetic performance; The rhetoric of spells; The principles of spell-construction; The function of spells
The production of certainty: analogical punishments and trials by ordealChiasmus and communication; Repetition, chiasmus, and salvation; The reality of magic; The question of deception: Pavlov's dogs and dirty dancing; Excursus: encounter with a fakir; 3 Natural, arbitrary, and divine languages ; The naturalization of arbitrariness; "The tyranny of taxonomies"; "I pooh-pooh the purity": etymologies in Hindu and British traditions; "Natural language[s] of the hand": gesture and the question of arbitrariness John Bulwer's Chirologia and ChironomiaHindu dance: gesture in the Natyasastra; Mudras in Hindu Tantra; 4 Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular ; Literalism: what is old and what new?; Iconoclasm and literalism; Statutes versus statues: Bentham's attack on the idols of language; Semiotics and the question of the secular 5 Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of Protestant literalism and print culture The repudiation of ritual: attacks on ritual repetition and poetic performance; The literacy hypothesis; "To have and to hold"; The literacy hypothesis revisited; 6 Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas's structuralist idea of the Holy Deist semiotics and the attack on revelationThe dietary laws revisited; Conclusion ; Religion and communication; Arbitrariness and certainty; From pragmatics to semantics, and back again; Reason, autonomy, and the critique of the sign; Last words; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452829203321 |
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Yelle Robert A
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| London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle
| Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.2 |
| Collana | Bloomsbury advances in semiotics |
| Soggetto topico |
Semiotics - History
Religion - History Semiotics - Religious aspects Structuralism (Literary analysis) Representation (Philosophy) |
| ISBN |
1-4411-7237-8
1-283-85367-1 1-4411-6765-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Semiotics beyond structuralism ; Why a semiotics of religion?; A brief critical survey of some semiotic theories of religion; Semiotic recognition; Bringing history to the semiotics of religion; Outline of chapters; 2 The poetics of ritual performance ; Toward a theory of poetic performance; The rhetoric of spells; The principles of spell-construction; The function of spells
The production of certainty: analogical punishments and trials by ordealChiasmus and communication; Repetition, chiasmus, and salvation; The reality of magic; The question of deception: Pavlov's dogs and dirty dancing; Excursus: encounter with a fakir; 3 Natural, arbitrary, and divine languages ; The naturalization of arbitrariness; "The tyranny of taxonomies"; "I pooh-pooh the purity": etymologies in Hindu and British traditions; "Natural language[s] of the hand": gesture and the question of arbitrariness John Bulwer's Chirologia and ChironomiaHindu dance: gesture in the Natyasastra; Mudras in Hindu Tantra; 4 Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular ; Literalism: what is old and what new?; Iconoclasm and literalism; Statutes versus statues: Bentham's attack on the idols of language; Semiotics and the question of the secular 5 Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of Protestant literalism and print culture The repudiation of ritual: attacks on ritual repetition and poetic performance; The literacy hypothesis; "To have and to hold"; The literacy hypothesis revisited; 6 Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas's structuralist idea of the Holy Deist semiotics and the attack on revelationThe dietary laws revisited; Conclusion ; Religion and communication; Arbitrariness and certainty; From pragmatics to semantics, and back again; Reason, autonomy, and the critique of the sign; Last words; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779332403321 |
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Yelle Robert A
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| London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle
| Semiotics of religion [[electronic resource] ] : signs of the sacred in history / / Robert A. Yelle |
| Autore | Yelle Robert A |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 p.) |
| Disciplina | 302.2 |
| Collana | Bloomsbury advances in semiotics |
| Soggetto topico |
Semiotics - History
Religion - History Semiotics - Religious aspects Structuralism (Literary analysis) Representation (Philosophy) |
| ISBN |
1-4411-7237-8
1-283-85367-1 1-4411-6765-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover; HalfTitle; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Semiotics beyond structuralism ; Why a semiotics of religion?; A brief critical survey of some semiotic theories of religion; Semiotic recognition; Bringing history to the semiotics of religion; Outline of chapters; 2 The poetics of ritual performance ; Toward a theory of poetic performance; The rhetoric of spells; The principles of spell-construction; The function of spells
The production of certainty: analogical punishments and trials by ordealChiasmus and communication; Repetition, chiasmus, and salvation; The reality of magic; The question of deception: Pavlov's dogs and dirty dancing; Excursus: encounter with a fakir; 3 Natural, arbitrary, and divine languages ; The naturalization of arbitrariness; "The tyranny of taxonomies"; "I pooh-pooh the purity": etymologies in Hindu and British traditions; "Natural language[s] of the hand": gesture and the question of arbitrariness John Bulwer's Chirologia and ChironomiaHindu dance: gesture in the Natyasastra; Mudras in Hindu Tantra; 4 Literalism, iconoclasm, and the question of the secular ; Literalism: what is old and what new?; Iconoclasm and literalism; Statutes versus statues: Bentham's attack on the idols of language; Semiotics and the question of the secular 5 Transformations in poetic performance: The coordination of Protestant literalism and print culture The repudiation of ritual: attacks on ritual repetition and poetic performance; The literacy hypothesis; "To have and to hold"; The literacy hypothesis revisited; 6 Arbitrariness, anomaly, and agency: A critique of Mary Douglas's structuralist idea of the Holy Deist semiotics and the attack on revelationThe dietary laws revisited; Conclusion ; Religion and communication; Arbitrariness and certainty; From pragmatics to semantics, and back again; Reason, autonomy, and the critique of the sign; Last words; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816524103321 |
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Yelle Robert A
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| London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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