Semiotics is the study of the most critical feature of human consciousness - the capacity for creating and using signs such as words and symbols for thinking, communicating, reflecting, transmitting, and preserving knowledge.
Ein Meister auf dem Weg zur UnsterblichkeitEduard Mörikes Novelle Mozart auf der Reise nach Prag von 1855 entführt die Leser:innen in die Welt des genialen Komponisten Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The works of Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) are widely acclaimed as being among the most original and provocative writings of twentieth-century critical thought, and have become required reading for scholars and students in a range of academic disciplines.
In its original formulation, culture' was intended to be an agent for change, a mission undertaken with the aim of educating the people' by bringing the best of human thought and creativity to them.
In this book, Janet Todd, one of the leading authorities on seventeenth- and eighteenth century women writers, discusses gender issues from the Restoration to Romanticism investigating women authors and the fascination with culturally privileged art and with heroic death.
Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential.
The nine contributors to this collection examine rhetorician Kenneth Burke's understanding of transcendence, applying it to a wide range of social and political issues, including racial and presidential politics.
Off the Page offers a series of critical "e;scripts"e; exploring various cultural texts, and a working definition of performative criticism grounded in poststructuralist literary, cultural, and performance theory.
This book by one of Latin America s leading cultural theorists examines the place of the subject and the role of biographical and autobiographical genres in contemporary culture.
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940), one of the most original and perceptive thinkers of the twentieth century, offered a unique insight into the profound impact of the media on modern society.
Rhetoric appears to be a marginal topic for the Bakhtin School and for most Bakhtin scholars, but many rhetorical critics, theorists, and teachers have nonetheless found the school's work compelling and challenging.
Since its publication in 2003, Understanding David Foster Wallace has served as an accessible introduction to the rich array of themes and formal innovations that have made Wallace's fiction so popular and influential.
The Aesthetic and Decadent Movement of the late 19th century spawned the idea of "Art for Art's Sake," challenged aesthetic standards and shocked the bourgeosie.
In this timely book Janet Todd offers an analysis and defence of the feminist literary history practised by Elaine Showalter and other contemporary American literary critics.