Semiotics & Theory
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How the Light Gets in: Writing as a Spiritual Practice
$22.99 Add to cart“When I begin to write, I open myself and wait. And when I turn toward an inner spiritual awareness, I open myself and wait.” With that insight, Pat Schneider invites readers to contemplate their live… [more below]
- Author: Schneider, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 10 2013
- ISBN10: 0199933987
- Language: English
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Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language, Revised and Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartSeth Lerer tells a masterful history of the English language from the age of Beowulf to the rap of Eminem. Many have written about the evolution of grammar, pronunciation, and vocabulary, but only Ler… [more below]
- Author: Lerer, Seth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0231174470
- Language: English
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
$10.99 Add to cartIn this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once again Miss Rand eloquently demonstrates her refusal to l… [more below]
- Author: Rand, Ayn
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0451149165
- Language: English
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Bicycle
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
These days the bicycle often appears as an interloper in a world constructed for cars. An alm- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Maskit, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 25 2024
- ISBN10: 1501338099
- Language: English
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Hide and Seek
$38.00 Add to cartAs bearers of the divine image, all of us are storytellers and artists. However, few people today believe in truth that is not empirically knowable or verifiable, the sort of truth often trafficked th… [more below]
- Series: Veritas #36
- Author: Fraser, Benson P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 1532670583
- Language: English
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
$18.99 Add to cart“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker
A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation mark
The semicolon. Stephen King, Hemingway, Vonnegut,
- Author: Watson, Cecelia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0062853066
- Language: English
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- Language: English
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Refusing Heaven: Poems
$20.00 Add to cartMore than a decade after Jack Gilbert’s The Great Fires, this highly anticipated new collection shows the continued development of a poet who has remained fierce in his avoidance of the beaten path. I… [more below]
- Author: Gilbert, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 13 2007
- ISBN10: 037571085X
- Language: English
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Postcolonialism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartPostcolonialism explores the political, social, and cultural effects of decolonization, continuing the anti-colonial deconstruction of western dominance. This Very Short Introduction discusses both th… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Young, Robert J. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: January 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0198856830
- 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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Selected Literary Essays
$22.99 Add to cartThis volume includes over twenty of C. S. Lewis’s most important literary essays, written between 1932 and 1962. The topics discussed range from Chaucer to Kipling, from ‘The Literary Impact of the Au… [more below]
- Series: Canto Classics
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1107685389
- 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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Province of Joy: Praying with Flannery O’Connor
$21.00 Add to cart“Like a beautiful quilt, Province of Joy is a deeply loving, imaginative work of art and faith.” – Elizabeth A. Johnson
This unique “Book of Hours” is modeled on the spiritual life and prayer practices
- Author: O’Donnell, Angela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1557257035
- Language: English
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Lectures on Russian Literature
$18.99 Add to cartThe acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.
In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on… [more below]
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: December 16 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027763
- 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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The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry, 2nd Edition
$23.99 Add to cartHarold Bloom’s The Anxiety of Influence has cast its own long shadow of influence since it was first published in 1973. Through an insightful study of Romantic poets, Bloom puts forth his central visi… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 10 1997
- ISBN10: 0195112210
- 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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Comedy: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartTo consider comedy in its many incarnations is to raise diverse but related questions: what, for instance, is humour, and how may it be used (or abused)? When do we laugh, and why? What is it that wri… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Bevis, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 07 2013
- ISBN10: 0199601712
- Language: English
