Symbols and Myth-Making in Modernity

Symbols and Myth-Making in ModernitySymbols and Myth Making in Modernity unpacks the deep culture that nourishes human perception of reality through symbols. From ancient, mythical creatures and rites through Renaissance masterpieces to cinema, religion and art, the book illustrates how ever present symbols erupt in popular culture today and what work they do in transforming self and society.

montage-like cultural experiments

At the neighborhood café where pastry chef Kosmas

Master Paulus Kal was the agent and fencing master to the powerful Duke Ludwig IX of Bavaria

Come Out of the Kitchen is a charming novel from a writer whose reputation as a popular poet should extend to her fiction as well

the Republic’s servants

The book also considers how the organic dairy sector is addressing challenges such as improving welfare and sustainability

The book discusses this problem at the core of gender theory as a practice which Broeck terms enslavism-the ongoing abjection of Black life which Hartman has called the afterlife of slavery

This collection features four peer-reviewed literature reviews on soil health indicators

First published two-hundred years ago in 1820

and the iconography of hockey

with separate chapters on specific vessel types and foreign ceramics

This major new literary study offers a fresh view of the significance of a famous group of fourteenth-century poems