Iconic Books and Texts
Iconic Books and Texts by James Washington Watts is a reprint edition published by Equinox Publishing Limited in 2015, featuring 446 pages in English. This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the role and influence of iconic books and texts throughout history, exploring their significance in both religious and secular contexts. It examines how these texts are represented in art, advertising, and rituals, highlighting their symbolic connections to learning, knowledge, and wisdom.
Readers will find a collection of twenty-two original essays that delve into the development of iconic texts from ancient to modern times, comparing their roles across various cultures and religious traditions. This scholarly work engages with subjects such as literary criticism, religious themes, and the history of books and reading, making it a valuable resource for students and scholars interested in the intersections of religion, literature, and cultural practices.
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Images of books appear in art, advertising and commercial logos to symbolize learning, knowledge and wisdom. In religious and secular rituals around the globe, people carry, show, wave, touch and kiss books and other texts, as well as read them. Such images and rituals utilize the iconic dimension of texts. This volume is the first comprehensive survey of iconic books and texts. It traces their development and influence from ancient to modern times and compares their roles in multiple cultures and religious traditions. The twenty-two essays presented here are original, cutting-edge contributions to this new academic field, and will appeal to students and scholars across the study of religions, literature, book history, archives and libraries.
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