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Author: Jeffrey P. Williams
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1107007127
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a detailed comparative overview of an array of elaborate grammatical resources used in Southeast Asian languages.
Author: Charles R. Elder
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0271040211
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Warwick M. Carter
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 72
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William R. Elton
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 200
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eckart Voland
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2003-06-12
Total Pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9783540436706
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvolutionary aesthetics is the attempt to understand the aesthetic judgement of human beings and their spontaneous distinction between "beauty" and "ugliness" as a biologically adapted ability to make important decisions in life. The hypothesis is - both in the area of "natural beauty" and in sexuality, with regard to landscape preferences, but also in the area of "artificial beauty" (i.e. in art and design) - that beauty opens up fitness opportunities, while ugliness holds fitness risks. In this book, this adaptive view of aesthetics is developed theoretically, presented on the basis of numerous examples, and its consequences for evolutionary anthropology are illuminated.
Author: Arthur P. Shimamura
Publisher: OUP USA
Published: 2012-01-02
Total Pages: 421
ISBN-13: 0199732140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat do we do when we view a work of art? What does it mean to have an 'aesthetic' experience? Are such experiences purely in the eye of the beholder? This book addresses the nature of aesthetic experience from the perspectives of philosophy psychology and neuroscience.
Author: Jerrold Levinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2005-01-27
Total Pages: 844
ISBN-13: 9780199279456
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'The Oxford Handbook of Aesthetics' has assembled 48 brand-new essays, making this a comprehensive guide available to the theory, application, history, and future of the field.
Author: GIPS
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Published: 2013-12-01
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 3034857535
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShape grammars provide a means for the recursive specification of shapes. The formalism for shape grammars is designed to be easily usable and understandable by people and at the same time to be adaptable for use in computer programs. Shape grammars are similar to phrase structura grammars, which were developed by Chomsky [ 1956, 1957]. Where a phrase structura grammar is defined over an alphabet of symbols and generates a language of sequences of symbols, a shape grammar is defined over an alphabet of shapes and generates a language of shapes. This dissertation explores the uses of shape grammars. The dissertation is divided into three sections and an appendix. In the first section: Shape grammars are defined. Some simple examples are given for instructiva purposes. Shape grammars are used to generate a new class of reversible figures. Shape grammars are given for some well-known mathematical curves (the Snowflake curve, a variation of Peano's curve, and Hilbert's curve). To show the general computational power of shape grammars, a procedura that given any Turing machine constructs a shape grammar that simulates the operation of that Turing machine is presented. Related work on various formalisms for pictura grammars is described. A symbolic characterization of shape grammars is given that is useful for implementing shape grammars in computer programs.
Author: Benedetto Croce
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-11-26
Total Pages: 268
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor Benedetto Croce presents an insightful treatise on Aesthetics in his book, 'Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic'. Croce establishes two forms of knowledge, logical and intuitive, and defines Aesthetics as the science of intuitive knowledge. He claims that intuition and expression are the same, with beauty being a successful expression, and unsuccessful expression not considered an expression at all. The second part of the book explores the history of aesthetics, citing references from Greek to Post-Kantians and German Idealists, and providing ingenious commentary. Croce also delves into language, discussing the individuality of speech, roots, and the relationship between grammar and logic. This insightful book offers a comprehensive understanding of Aesthetics and language, making it a must-read for those interested in these subjects.
