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Type: scientific

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Author: Jonathan Culler

Tags: culture literary semiotics semiology sign

Description: To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-AmericanTo gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-response criticism, the value of the apostrophe and much more, Jonathan Culler opens up for every reader the closed world of literary criticism. Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis'.
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Type: scientific

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Author: Ferdinand de Saussure

Tags: communication linguistics semiotics discourse semiology

Description: De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term,De Saussures seminal work on linguistics (and his embryonic notion of semiotics - his term, semiology). Put together from the lecture notes of his students after his death. This is a surprisingly readable book! Very interesting and especially so for Lotman scholars... easy now to see where those later ideas on culture came from. ...

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Type: technical

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Author: Roland Barthes

Tags: communication linguistics semiotics discourse semiology

Description: An analysis of de Saussure's science of signs (semiology) and a nice introduction to semioticsAn analysis of de Saussure's science of signs (semiology) and a nice introduction to semiotics as it stood in the early to mid-1960s in the European tradition. An easily readable slim volume of approximately 100 pages....

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Type: documentary

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Author: Jonathan Culler

Tags: semiotics semiology Saussure

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Type: educational

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Author: Paul J Thibault

Tags: semiotics semiology Saussure thibault parole langue

Description: A really interesting revisitation of Saussures work. Particularly interesting discussion ofA really interesting revisitation of Saussures work. Particularly interesting discussion of langue and parole....