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001			1032316538
003			OCoLC
005			20190524125315.0
008			170928t20182018enka b 001 0 eng c
020			_a9781780239200 _qpaperback
020			_a1780239203 _qpaperback
035			_a(OCoLC)1032316538 _z(OCoLC)1004760144 _z(OCoLC)1032504606
040			_aYDX _beng _erda _cYDX _dOCLCF _dOBE _dOCL _dMiTN
042			_apcc
050		4	_aQC976.R2 _bM33 2018
100	1		_aMacCannell, Daniel,
245	1	0	_aRainbows / _cDaniel MacCannell.
246	1	4	_aRainbows : _bnature and culture.
264		1	_aLondon, UK : _bReaktion Books Ltd, _c2018.
264		4	_c©2018.
300			_a206 pages : _billustrations (chiefly color) ; _c21 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
490	1		_aEarth series.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 167-192) and index.
505	0		_aWhat rainbows are and how they work -- Rainbows in the history of scientific enquiry -- Rainbows and myth -- Rainbows in literature, poetry and music -- Rainbows in art and film -- Rainbows in politics and popular culture.
520			_aThe rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature--a rare, evanescent, and beautiful bridge between subjective experience and objective reality--and no less remarkable as a cultural phenomenon. A symbol of the Left since the German Peasants' War of the 1520s, it has been adopted by movements for gay rights, the environment, multiculturalism, and peace around the globe, and has inspired poets, artists, and writers including John Keats, Caspar David Friedrich, Edgar Allan Poe, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. In this book, the first of its kind, Daniel MacCannell offers an enlightening and instructive guide to the rainbow's multicolored relationship with humanity.The scientific 'discovery' of the rainbow is a remarkable tale, taking in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval Persia, and Islamic Spain. But even as we've studied rainbows, adopted their image, and penned odes to them for millennia, rainbows have also been regarded as ominous or even dangerous in myth and religion. In the twentieth century, the rainbow emerged as kitsch, arcing from the musical film version of The Wizard of Oz to 1980s sitcoms and children's cartoons. Illustrated throughout in prismatic color, MacCannell's Rainbows explores the full spectrum of rainbows' nature and meaning, offering insight into what rainbows are and how they work, how we arrived at our current scientific understanding of the phenomenon, and how we have portrayed them in everything from myth to the arts, politics, and popular culture.
650		0	_aRainbows.
650		0	_aRainbows _xHistory.
650		0	_aRainbows _xMythology.
650		0	_aRainbows in literature.
650		0	_aRainbows in art.
830		0	_aEarth series.
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