Semiotics & Theory
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Travels in HyperReality
$18.95 Add to cart“A scintillating collection of writings by one of the most influential thinkers of our times.” —Los Angeles Times
With the same wit, learning, and lively intelligence that delighted readers of The Nam
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 03 2013
- ISBN10: 0156913216
- Language: English
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Standing by Words
$16.95 Read moreAn urgent, visionary, and heartfelt collection of essays focused on recovering deeper, time-honored values against the ravages of modern society.
In six elegant, linked literary essays, Berry consider- Author: Berry, Wendell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 12 2011
- ISBN10: 1582437459
- Language: English
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Jewish Literature: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThe story of Jewish literature is a kaleidoscopic one, multilingual and transnational in character, spanning the globe as well as the centuries.
In this broad, thought-provoking introduction to Jewish- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stavans, Ilan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: July 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0190076976
- Language: English
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A Short History of Fantasy
$20.00 Add to cartSome of the earliest books ever written, including The Epic of Gilgamesh and the Odyssey, deal with monsters, marvels, extraordinary voyages, and magic, and this genre, known as fantasy, remained an e… [more below]
- Author: Mendlesohn, Farah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 285
- Publish Date: June 27 2012
- ISBN10: 1907471669
- 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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The Sense of Brown
$26.95 Add to cartThe Sense of Brown is José Esteban Muñoz’s treatise on brownness and being as well as his most direct address to queer Latinx studies. In this book, which he was completing at the time of his death,… [more below]
- Series: Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and
- Author: Muñoz, José Esteban
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 02 2020
- ISBN10: 1478011033
- Language: English
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Present Concerns: Journalistic Essays
$15.99 Add to cartA repackaged edition of the revered author’s essays in which he deliberates on contemporary issues, from the moral to the spiritual to the practical.
C. S. Lewis–the great British writer, scholar, lay
- Author: Lewis, C. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0062643592
- Language: English
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How to Read and Why
$19.99 Add to cartInformation is endlessly available to us; where shall wisdom be found?” is the crucial question with which renowned literary critic Harold Bloom begins this impassioned book on the pleasures and benef… [more below]
- Author: Bloom, Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 02 2001
- ISBN10: 0684859076
- Language: English
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The Hard Facts of the Grimms’ Fairy Tales: Expanded Edition
$22.95 Add to cartMurder, mutilation, cannibalism, infanticide, and incest: the darker side of classic fairy tales is the subject of this groundbreaking and intriguing study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm’s Nursery and Hou… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Classics #39
- Author: Tatar, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: January 22 2019
- ISBN10: 069118299X
- 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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How to Read Donald Duck: Imperialist Ideology in the Disney Comic
$22.95 Add to cart“The book has a rambunctious humor that complements its polemical spirit . . . As Disney has evolved from an animation studio into a corporate behemoth–with theme parks, a cruise line, and content st… [more below]
- Author: Dorfman, Ariel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 20 2020
- ISBN10: 0745339786
- 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
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The Great Code the Bible and Literature
$19.99 Add to cartAn examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively presents the Bible as a unique text distinct from all o… [more below]
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 11 2002
- ISBN10: 0156027801
- Language: English
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Six Memos for the Next Millennium
$15.99 Add to cartItalo Calvino’s brilliant reflection on what makes great literature, from the classics to more contemporary works, punctuated with personal details about Calvino’s own writing processes.
At the time of… [more below]
- Author: Calvino, Italo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544146670
- Language: English
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Sexual Personae: Art & Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson
$25.00 Add to cartThe fiery, provocative, and unparalleled work of feminist art criticism that launched the exceptional career of one of our most important public intellectuals–“a remarkable book, at once outrageous a… [more below]
- Author: Paglia, Camille
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: August 20 1991
- ISBN10: 0679735798
- Language: English
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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
$28.00 Add to cartThis remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are drawn from a variety of scholarly backgrounds–including a
- Series: Dictionary, Penguin
- Author: Chevalier, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1184
- Publish Date: March 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0140512543
- Language: English
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
$19.00 Read moreSusan Sontag’s celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.
In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as “one of the most liberating books of- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: August 25 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420137
- Language: English
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The Word: How We Translate the Bible–And Why It Matters
$32.00 Add to cartFrom a distinguished Oxford scholar and the author of A History of the Bible, an examination of how biblical translation works and why it matters
Throughout history, most Jewish and Christian believ- Author: Barton, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603680
- Language: English
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Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation
$18.00 Add to cart“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrument of analysis of our contemporary myths than thi
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 12, 2013
- ISBN10: 0809071940
- Language: English
