Semiotics & Theory
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Empire of Signs
$18.00 Add to cartWith this book, Barthes offers a broad-ranging meditation on the culture, society, art, literature, language, and iconography–in short, both the sign-oriented realities and fantasies–of Japan itself
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0374522073
- Language: English
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Literary Studies: A Norton Guide
$20.50 Read moreLiterary Studies provides students with an accessible overview of everything they need to know to succeed in their English courses–literary terms, historical periods, theoretical approaches, and more… [more below]
- Author: Habib, M. A. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 10 2020
- ISBN10: 039393795X
- Language: English
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Saxophone
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
The saxophone is a contradictory instrument that has rooted itself in the soil of pop culture- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Hawkins, Mollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114773
- Language: English
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Educated Imagination
$15.95 Add to cart“What good is the study of literature? Does it help us think more clearly, or feel more sensitively, or live a better life than we could without it?” Written in the relaxed and frequently humorous sty
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0887845983
- Language: English
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The Body in Pain: The Making and Unmaking of the World
$23.99 Add to cartPart philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analy… [more below]
- Author: Scarry, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 385
- Publish Date: April 23 1987
- ISBN10: 0195049969
- Language: English
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Literature for a Changing Planet
$31.58 Read moreWhy we must learn to tell new stories about our relationship with the earth if we are to avoid climate catastrophe
Reading literature in a time of climate emergency can sometimes feel a bit like fiddl- Series: Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities/Princeton University Press Lectures in European Culture #1
- Author: Puchner, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0691213755
- Language: English
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Supergods: What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us about Being Human
$23.00 Add to cartNATIONAL BESTSELLER – What Masked Vigilantes, Miraculous Mutants, and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Human
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Iron Man, and the X-Men–the list of nam- Author: Morrison, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: June 26 2012
- ISBN10: 0812981383
- Language: English
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The Lives of Literature: Reading, Teaching, Knowing
$49.92 Read moreA passionate, wry, and personal book about how the greatest works of literature illuminate our lives
Why do we read literature? For Arnold Weinstein, the answer is clear: literature allows us to becom- Author: Weinstein, Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691177309
- Language: English
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Wine
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
While wine drunk millennia ago was the humble beverage of the people, today the drink is inex- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Bernhard, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383612
- Language: English
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Relic
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Every culture, every religion, every era has enshrined otherwise regular objects with a signi- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Simon, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 11 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765102282
- Language: English
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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
