Semiotics & Theory
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Recipe
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Recipe reveals the surprising lessons that recipes teach, in addition to the obvious instruct- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bloom, Lynn Z.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1501367102
- Language: English
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Sewer
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
What can underground pipes tell us about human eating habits and the spread or containment of- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hester, Jessica Leigh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 150137950X
- Language: English
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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$19.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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The Pleasure of the Text
$17.00 Add to cartWhat is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes’s answers to these questions constitute “perhaps for the first time in the hi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: January 01 1975
- ISBN10: 0374521603
- Language: English
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Magazine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
For a century, magazines were the authors of culture and taste, of intelligence and policy –- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Jarvis, Jeff
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501394959
- Language: English
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Mushroom
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
They are the things we step on without noticing and the largest organisms on Earth. They are- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Rich, Sara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: January 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1501386581
- Language: English
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Barcode
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Barcodes are about as ordinary as an object can be. Billions of them are scanned each day and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Frith, Jordan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: November 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1501399918
- Language: English
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Image-Music-Text
$18.00 Read moreThese essays, as selected and translated by Stephen Heath, are among the finest writings Barthes ever published on film and photography, and on the phenomena of sound and image. The classic pieces “In
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1978
- ISBN10: 0374521360
- Language: English
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Living Revision: A Writer’s Craft as Spiritual Practice
$18.00 Read more“Revision is the spiritual practice of transformation–of seeing text, and therefore the world, with new eyes. Done well, revision returns us to our original love.”
In Living Revision, award-winning a
- Author: Andrew, Elizabeth Jarrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: March 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1558968016
- Language: English
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Avidly Reads Theory
$18.00 Add to cart“Theory offered us a way of understanding the world that, like so many youthful exuberances, was both vital and ridiculous.”
As an avowed “theory head,” Jordan Alexander Stein confronts a contradictio- Author: Stein, Jordan Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1479801003
- Language: English
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Decolonizing the English Literary Curriculum
$25.99 Add to cartGeorge Floyd’s death on May 25th 2020 marked a watershed in reactions to anti-Black racism in the United States and elsewhere. Intense demonstrations around the world followed. Within literary studies… [more below]
- Author: Quayson, Ato
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 542
- Publish Date: November 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1009299964
- Language: English
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The Uses of Literature
$20.99 Add to cartIn these widely praised essays, Calvino reflects on literature as process, the great narrative game in the course of which writer and reader are challenged to understand the world. Calvino himself mad… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0156932504
- Language: English
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On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
$13.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s collection of essays on writing fiction.
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay theologian, broadcaster, Christian apologist, and bestselling a
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643606
- Language: English
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Pencil
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
A cylinder of baked graphite and clay in a wood case, the pencil creates as it is being destr- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Beggy, Carol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 08 2024
- ISBN10: 1501392247
- Language: English
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Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism
$30.95 Add to cartNow in paperback, Fredric Jameson’s most wide-ranging work seeks to crystalize a definition of “postmodernism”. Jameson’s inquiry looks at the postmodern across a wide landscape, from “high” art to “l… [more below]
- Series: Post-Contemporary Interventions
- Author: Jameson, Fredric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 460
- Publish Date: January 06 1992
- ISBN10: 0822310902
- Language: English
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Writing Degree Zero
$16.00 Add to cartIs there any such thing as revolutionary literature? Can literature, in fact, be political at all? These are the questions Roland Barthes addresses in Writing Degree Zero, his first published book and
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2012
- ISBN10: 0374532354
- Language: English
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Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays
$22.95 Add to cartA landmark work of literary criticism
Northrop Frye’s Anatomy of Criticism is the magnum opus of one of the most important and influential literary theorists of the twentieth century. Breaking with th- Series: Princeton Classics #69
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: May 19 2020
- ISBN10: 0691202567
- Language: English
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Reflections: Essays, Aphorisms, Autobiographical Writings
$19.99 Add to cart“This book is just that: reflections of a highly polished mind that uncannily approximate the century’s fragments of shattered traditions.” — Time
A companion volume to Illuminations, the first coll- Author: Benjamin, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1328470229
- Language: English
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Lectures on Literature
$24.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author of Lolita offers unique insight into works by James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Jane Austen, and others–with an introduction by John Updike.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first emba… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027755
- Language: English
