Semiotics & Theory

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Is consciousness like an iceberg? Does advertising lead to the commodification of humans? What is the hidden meaning of fairy tales? In 50 Ways to Understand Communication, Arthur Asa Berger familiarizes readers with important concepts written by leading...

Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar...

This volume examines the ten most popular fictional narratives in early modern Europe between 1470 and 1800. Each of these narratives was marketed in numerous European languages and circulated throughout several centuries. Combining literary studies and...

Now available in paperback! Until now, there was no theoretical research of character in children's fiction and very few comprehensive theoretical studies of literary characters in general. In her latest intellectual foray, the author of From Mythic to...

This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language-and storytelling in particular-deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel...

Video games are among the most popular media on the planet, and billions of people inhabit these virtual worlds on a daily basis. This book investigates the architecture of video games, the buildings, roads and cities in which gamers play out their roles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285644Author William NellesFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 152g

Semiotics - the study of the encoding of meaning - has so far been confined largely within the humanities, where it has forged a whole new way of understanding meaning and its construction. In this multidisciplinary study, Edwina Taborsky applies...

Re-reading Derrida: Perspectives on Mourning and its Hospitalities, edited by Tony Thwaites and Judith Seaboyer, is a unique collaborative exploration of the legacies of the late philosopher, Jacques Derrida, across a wide variety of fields. Anchoring...

Telling a story requires selecting and assembling individual elements of the events one wishes to communicate. The "nonnarrated" are the events (or parts of events) that were deliberately left out of the selection, meaning all that was not chosen to be...

Divided into four descriptive sections-"Theory and the Ethics of Literary Text," "Confronting the Difficult: The Ethics of Race and Power," "Making Darkness Visible: The Ethical Implications of Narrative as Witness," and "Ways of Seeing: The Diversity of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781725285651Author William NellesFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9786155423444Author Enikő BollobasFormat PaperbackImprint Americana eBooksPublisher Americana eBooksWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814215678Author Marco CaraccioloFormat HardbackPage Count 238Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams) 454g

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ideology, Wordsworth explores emotion for its generation of human experience and meaning. He renders poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781548298906Author Retorico UnentesiFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493521388Author Norman Styers Ph DFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint CreatespacePublisher CreatespaceWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643150000Author Robin Truth GoodmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Lever PressPublisher Lever PressWeight(grams) 191g

This book explores manifestations of physical disability in Spanish American narrative fiction and performance, from Jose Marti's late nineteenth century cronicas, to Mario Bellatin's twenty-first century novels, from the performances of Guillermo...

This text builds upon the over 1500 papers published in peer-reviewed journals revealing that there are more than 200 biological codes in living systems. The author claims this experimental fact is bound to change biology forever. This book shows how...

Our fascination with the trickster figure, whose presence is global, stems from our desire to break free from the tightly regimented structures of our societies. Condemned to conform to laws and rules imposed by governments, communities, social groups...

Reading the impossible has never seemed less possible. A few decades ago, critical readings could view the collapse of foundationalism optimistically. With meaning no longer soldered onto being, there was hope for all those beings whose meaning had been...

This gathering of eminent thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engages a common theme: In what ways does language-and storytelling in particular-deal with ethics in science, in literature, and in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948637015Author Olchar E LindsannFormat PaperbackPage Count 346Imprint Monocle-Lash Anti-PressPublisher Monocle-Lash Anti-PressWeight(grams) 804g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781983809347Author Dan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Writing for art is a concise introduction to the subject of ekphrasis, and the first study to offer a useful general survey of the larger philosophical and theoretical questions arising from the encounter of literary texts and artworks. Stephen Cheeke...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781947447509Author Jonathan BasileFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498556583Author Trevor HoagFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington BooksWeight(grams) 345g

Naming Adult Autism is one of the first critiques of cultural and medical narratives of Autism to be authored by an adult diagnosed with this condition. Autism is a 'social disorder', defined by interactions and lifestyle. Yet, the expectations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781495302381Author Martin AsinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 536Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Occupying Memory investigates the forces of trauma and mourning as deeply rhetorical in order to account for their capacity to seize one's life. Rather than viewing memory as granting direct access to the past and being readily accessible or pliant to...

Freedom and Dialogue in a Polarized World argues that our most cherished ideas about freedom-being left alone to do as we please, or uncovering the truth-have failed us. They promote the polarized thinking that blights our world. Rooted in literature,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788196376734Author Mirza Khaleel Ahmad BegFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Alisha PrintersPublisher Alisha PrintersWeight(grams) 195g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781518673429Author John David EbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

A History of World Literature is a fully revised and expanded edition of The Routledge Concise History of World Literature (2012). This remarkably broad and informative book offers an introduction to “world literature.”Tracing the term from its earliest...

Ridiculous Critics is an anthology of eighteenth-century writings on the figure of the literary critic, and on the critic's mixed and complex role. The collection assembles critical texts and satirical images chronologically to suggest a vision of the...

Written between 1910 and 1929, Traces is considered Ernst Bloch's most important work next to The Principle of Hope and The Spirit of Utopia. This book, which collects aphorisms, essays, stories, and anecdotes, enacts Bloch's interest in showing how...

The topos of the journey is one of the oldest in literature, and even in this age of packaged tours and mediated experience, it still remains one of the most compelling. This volume examines the ways in which the legacy of the Grand Tour is still evident...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781505539486Author Bertrand RussellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...