It is in and through Symbols that man. Consciously or unconsciously, lives, works. And has his being: those ages, moreover. Are accounted the noblest which can the best recognise symbolical worth, and prize it highest.
In early youth I had from my Mother a Casket curiously fashioned and of many precious metals.
This is a book about the role of culture in social change and the Spanish transition to democracy after Franco. Laura Desfor Edles takes a distinctively culturalist approach to the 'strategy of consensus' deployed by the Spanish elite and uses systematic textual interpretation (with a particular focus on Spanish newspapers) to show how a new symbolic framework emerged in post-Franco Spain which enabled the resolution of specific events critical to the success of the transition. In addition to uncovering underlying processes of symbolization, she shows that politico-historical transitions can themselves be understood as ritual processes, involving as they do phases and symbols of separation, liminality and re-aggregation.
MY knowledge of India began twenty — one years ago, and almost the half of this interval has been spent in wanderings over that vast continent, from Cape Comorin in the South, to Peshawar on our Northern frontier; a large portion of the remainder has been occupied in European travel, dur ing which I always sought for, and noted in museums and elsewhere, any objects or customs bearing upon Eastern Symbolism. Since their original appearance in the Indian Antiquary much has been added to these papers relative to folk-lore and folk-customs in Europe. One of the results of the present increased facilities of locomotion has been a growth of new ideas in various countries, and especially in some hitherto isolated districts; thereby many curious old customs and superstitions (of much assistance to us in tracing the connection between East and West) are doomed to speedy extinction. No time is to be lost, then, by travellers who would witness and record their existence. It would seem, therefore, most desirable to stimulate research in this direction, and by the publication of a work like the present, to enable the individual traveller to recognise any ancient customs or symbols he may meet with.
This little volume aims to photograph in its way the forms and styles of correct dress for a gentle man moving in polite society. It will give some hints， gathered from fresh and reliable sources， as to the dress to be worn in the morning， afternoon and evening. It will define or suggest， as needs may be， the fashion of cloth， of linen， or jewelry， and coverings for the head and feet. Such recent changes as have been made in the style of dress in vogue at weddings， receptions， etc.， will be indi cated， and where absolute innovations have been ia troduced of late， they will be clearly defined. That this manual may serve a useful purpose to many re quiring the reference of a reliable authority upon the important subject of correct attire， is the earnest hope of the publishers.
In psychiatry and the related sciences there has lately broken out a struggle for and against the Freudian theories. I count 5 myself fortunate to be able, by means Of such beautiful, inviting material as fairy tales, to bear a weapon in this conflict.
God made the country; man made the town, says William Cowper, and almost everyone will agree that it is the deprivation of the colour of the country that makes our towns so sadly depressing, for nearly all people appreciate colour, though perhaps in a general way. They realise that colour helps to beautify the world.
I have been for some years engaged upon a work of comprehensive design, in which I propose to bring together, under a single view, all such leading and well authenticated facts as may be accessible, relating to the aboriginal monuments of the American continent, which shall serve to illustrate not only their character and origin, but also the ancient and as yet unwritten history of the New World, and the relation which its aboriginal inhabitants sustained to the great primitive families of the other Continent. A work of this scope and magnitude, it can readily be understood by every one at all acquainted with the subject, must require many years to its completion, especially when, as in my own case, it can only be prosecuted in the intervals of other and more practical duties.
Has sufficient attention been paid to the fact that, apart from all its horrors and injustice, the French Revolution was a beautiful dream? Imagination ran riot as never before. People seemed utterly unable to speak or to think in plain language. In what period of the world's history do we meet with so many fables and personifications, symbols, satires, and emblems? The dawn of French liberty is like the dawn of the world's religion; there is the same conflict between great shapeless monsters that forms the legendary basis of every modem creed. The war of liberty against slavery is one of Titans against gods; the favourite symbol for despotism is the many-headed hydra. The number of these hydras that were slain, of the chains that were broken, of the yokes that were cast off, is simply appalling. The cap of Liberty, the carpenter's level to denote Equality, the scales of Justice, the eye of Vigilance, the bundle of fagots to denote Unity and Indivisibility: all these and many more recur literally thousands of times.
Sound symbolism is the study of the relationship between the sound of an utterance and its meaning. In this interdisciplinary collection of new studies, twenty-four leading scholars discuss the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language. They consider sound symbolic processes in a wide range of languages from Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and North and South America. Beginning with an evocative typology of sound symbolic processes, they go on to examine not only the well-known areas of study, such as onomatopoeia and size sound symbolism, but also less frequently discussed topics such as the sound symbolic value of vocatives and of involuntary noises, and the marginal areas of 'conventional sound symbolism', such as phonesthemes. The book concludes with a series of studies on the biological basis of sound symbolism, and draws comparisons with the communication systems of other species. This is a definitive work on the role of sound symbolism in a theory of language.
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