Semiotics & Theory

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...

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the...

This book argues that Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., helps us see the law through an Emersonian lens by the way in which he wrote his judicial dissents. Holmes's literary style mimics and enacts two characteristics of Ralph Waldo Emerson's thought:...

Re-Imagining Nature: Environmental Humanities and Ecosemiotics explores new horizons in environmental studies, which consider communication and meaning as core definitions of ecological life, essential to deep sustainability. It considers landscape as...

This book is a study of signs in American literature and culture. It is mainly about electric signs, but also deals with non-electric signs and related phenomena, such as movie sets. The "sign" is considered in both the architectural and...

By remapping the configurations of mourning across modernist, postmodernist, and postcolonial literatures, psychoanalysis and deconstruction (James Joyce, Jamaica Kincaid, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Elias Khoury, Sigmund Freud, and Jacques Derrida), Signifying...

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...

This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493705771Author Daymon M SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781470123499Author George V RikardFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781449515737Author Marianne ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Combining in innovative ways the tools and approaches of postcolonial and popular culture studies as well as comparative literary analysis, this is an ambitious, interdisciplinary study that develops - across several related discursive sites - an...

This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon's work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Separate chapters introduce Fanon's life and examine...

This interdisciplinary volume of essays studies human rights in political prison literature, while probing the intersections of suffering, politics, and aesthetics in an interliterary and intercultural context. As the first book to explore the concept of...

This book focuses on a reading of Frantz Fanon's work and life, asking how the work of a revolutionary writer such as Fanon might be best appropriated for contemporary political and cultural issues. Separate chapters introduce Fanon's life and examine...

Mesmerism, Medusa, and the Muse: The Romantic Discourse of Spontaneous Creativity explores the connections among the Romantic discourse of spontaneous literary creativity, the nineteenth-century cultural practice of mesmerism, and the mythical Medusa as...

Lucretius's long shadow falls across the disciplines of literary history and criticism, philosophy, religious studies, classics, political philosophy, and the history of science. The best recent example is Stephen Greenblatt's popular account of the...