Santa Claus Army

2018 ◽  
pp. 358-359
Author(s):  
Elisabeth Ginsberg
Keyword(s):  
Santa Claus

scholarly journals Picture Reports: Influenza virus, Santa Claus, or a mouse playing tennis?

BMJ ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 289 (6460) ◽  
pp. 1744-1744
Author(s):  
B. Getty
Keyword(s):  
Influenza Virus ◽  
Santa Claus

scholarly journals Cultural codes in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus)

2011 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 105-144
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Haładewicz-Grzelak
Keyword(s):  
Public Culture ◽  
Eastern Christianity ◽  
Santa Claus ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Representative Selection ◽  
Selection Of

This paper examines some aspects of the cultural codes implied in the iconography of St Nicholas (Santa Claus). The argument posits the iconography of St Nicholas as a vessel for capturing meanings and accumulating them in the construction of public culture. The discussion begins from the earliest developments of the Christian era and proceeds to contemporary depictions (imagology). The study is conducted on the basis of a representative selection of renditions of Saint Nicholas, including 350 pictures of medieval representations (Western and Eastern Christianity), folk extensions and secular representations and it is theoretically grounded in the Tartu School of semiotics.

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