Rose Lore Essays in Cultural History and Semiotics |
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| Author:
| Hutton, Frankie |
| Contribution by:
| Amao, Albert
Cucciniello, Lisa
Ginsburg, Sy
Joshi, Monika
Fenyo, Mario |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7391-2667-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2008 |
| Publisher: | Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $102.95 |
Book Description:
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The essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, and metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The essays present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, and historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.
The essays in Rose Lore are a rendering of global cultural history, literature, and metaphysics, woven together in a collection that will be valuable to several disciplines. The essays present numerous qualities of the rose as a symbol with broad cultural, social, and historical meanings: from astrology, to the history of Catholicism, to the new anti-Female Genital Mutilation global movement.