| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; About this book; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: festive architectures: agon, liminality, and representation; The festival in history; 1 Pruning and propagating civic behaviour: three feste in and around Santa Maria della Vittoria in Mantua, 1495-97 -- Italy; 2 A contemporary reading of the Accession Day Tilts in relation to festival and the Elizabethan notion of 'lost sense of sight' -- UK; 3 Festa della Chinea: tradition and the 'exotic' in Roman festival design -- Italy |
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4 Honneurs et applaudissements: celebrating the first Jesuit saints in seventeenth-century FranceThe festival through history; 5 Script and score: revisiting Nelson Goodman at Sanja Matsuri -- Japan; 6 The Calcio Storico in Florence: agonistic ritual and the space of civic order -- Italy; 7 The festal topography of André Breton's Paris; 8 The town of witches: Triora transfixed -- Italy; 9 Festival, ritual, and rhetoric of the Arabian market street -- Middle East; Meaning in the modern festival; 10 A better life for more people: Jaqueline Tyrwhitt's contribution to the festival of Britain -- UK |
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11 A vigorous corrective: the Ulster '71 festival in Northern Ireland, UK12 The Pope, the park, and the city: Dublin, 1979, Republic of Ireland; 13 Urban fabric: Maria Lai and Ulassai, Sardinia 1981; 14 The social architecture of contemporary cultural festivals: connecting people, the environment, and art in the Setouchi Triennale -- Japan; 15 Tahrir Square's festive imagination -- Egypt; Index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Frost, Christian
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Lucas, Ray
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| ISBN |
9780429778056 |
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0429778058 |
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9780429778049 |
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042977804X |
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9780429778032 |
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0429778031 |
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9780429432125 |
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0429432127 |
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