Rose Lore: Essays In Semiotics And Cultural History (critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, And Culture)

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. ISBN-13: 9780739126677 Rose Lore: Essays in Cultural History and Semiotics 4 Contents 6 Prologue 8 Foreword 10 Introduction 12 Chapter 1 Wild Roses and Native Americans 20 Chapter 2 Female Genital Mutiliation (FGM) Or Cutting the Rose in Alice Walker's Garden 30 Chapter 3 Rose Symbolism in Qabalistic Tarot and Beyond 44 Chapter 4 The Tradition of the Rose in East Indian Culture and Ayurvedic Medicine 64 Chapter 5 Rose to Rosary: The Flower of Venus in Catholicism 74 Chapter 6 The Rose and Astrology 104 Chapter 7 "Dying Laughing": The Rose from Yeats to Rumi 114 Chapter 8 Rose Vignettes: Black Plague to Gulag 128 Chapter 9 "Blossom as the Rose" in Oahspe, The Emerald Tablets, and the Holy Bible 146 Acknowledgments 172 Index 174 About the Contributors 178 Lexington,Books Lexington Books