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The poems in Chekwube Danladi's debut collection are attentive to the moments of agency that refute and confront the limits imposed on black femme bodies. As a whole it is preoccupied with utilizing the lessons of lived experience to comment on and engage with larger movements toward expression and liberation for black people across temporal and physical spaces. The collection moves in and out of the material and the spiritual world, in and out of...
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Eco's treatment demonstrates his mastery of the field of semiotics. It focuses on the twin problems of the doctrine of signs-communication and signification-and offers a highly original theory of sign production, including a carefully wrought typology of signs and modes of production.
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Most of the current scholarly literature on biblical intertextuality--or the use of the Old Testament in the New Testament--exhibits a high degree of variance regarding methodological approach. The variety of methods employed naturally yields a variety of results. Semiotics, or the study of signs and how they communicate, offers an avenue for approaching intertextual references that focuses on communication theory and meaning. In addition, semiotic...
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"With an abandoned degree behind her and a thirtieth birthday approaching, amateur writer Bonnie Falls moves out of her parents' home into a nearby flat. Her landlady, Sylvia Slythe, takes an interest in Bonnie, encouraging her to finish one of her stories, in which a young woman moves to the seaside, falling under strange influences. As summer approaches, Sylvia suggests to Bonnie that, as neither of them has anyone else to go on holiday with, they...
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 18 x 20 cm
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"An artistic collection of 50 drawings featuring unique, funny, and poignant foreign words that have no direct translation into English. Did you know that the Japanese have a word to express the way sunlight filters through the leaves of trees? Or that there's a Swedish word to describe the reflection of the moon across the water? The nuanced beauty of language is even more interesting and relevant in our highly communicative, globalized modern world....
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"Like no other book before it, this work delves into the deep, dark and mysterious undertones hidden in Tinseltown's biggest films. Esoteric Hollywood is a game-changer in an arena of tabloid-populated titles. After years of scholarly research, Jay Dyer has compiled his most read essays, combining philosophy, comparative religion, symbolism and geopolitics and their connections to film. Readers will watch movies with new eyes, able to decipher on...
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"Striking out at the conception of criticism as restricted to mere opinion or ritual gesture, Northrop Frye wrote this magisterial work proceeding on the assumption that criticism is a structure of thought and knowledge in its own right. In four essays on historical, ethical, archetypical, and rhetorical criticism, employing examples of world literature from ancient times to the present, Frye reconceived literary criticism as a total history rather...
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Raymond Monelle is Reader in Music at the University of Edinburgh. He is author of Linguistics and Semiotics in Music and publishes widely as both a music theorist and a music critic. He has lectured and taught at universities throughout Europe, North America, and Israel. He was formerly a pianist, conductor, and composer.
The fictional Dr. Strabismus sets out to write a new comprehensive theory of music. But music's tendency to deconstruct itself...
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Elaine Scarry teaches in the English department at Harvard University, where she is Walter M. Cabot Professor of Aesthetics and the General Theory of Value. She is the author of The Body in Pain, Resisting Representation, Dreaming by the Book, and many articles on war and social contract.
Have we become beauty-blind? For two decades or more in the humanities, various political arguments have been put forward against beauty: that it distracts us...
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Umberto Eco is, quite simply, a genius. He is a renowned medievalist, philosopher, novelist, a popular journalist, and linguist. He is as warm and witty as he is learned-and quite probably the best-known academic and novelist in the world today. The goal of this anthology is to examine his ideas of literary semiotics and interpretation as evidenced both in his scholarly work and in his fiction.
17) Cuerpo y sentido
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El cuerpo no es, para la semiótica, un dominio de análisis como cualquier otro. La encarnación de los procesos significantes le proporciona un substrato que se impone a todas las elaboraciones cognitivas y emotivas. En primer lugar, el cuerpo es la sede donde se encuentra el que va a ser el plano de la expresión con el que será el plano del contenido: se convierte así en operador de la semiosis. Por lo demás, los cuerpos que interactúan con...
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Se puede decir que la pregunta central de cualquier propuesta semiótica (del estructuralismo europeo a la semeiótica peirceana, del culturalismo lotmaniano al cognitivismo de la Escuela de Árhus) es en qué consiste la significación. Y cada una de ellas, con variaciones de muy diverso grado, ofrece una respuesta a dicha pregunta. En este libro queremos proponer un enfoque alternativo, que hemos denominado "agentivo": aquí la significación se...
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El autor de esta obra descubre qué valores están detrás (o delante, como meta, como horizonte) de las "formas de vida". Todos los trabajos incluidos son claros y didácticos, que nos permiten valorar y apropiarnos de los fines, así como de los medios de estudio concretos para aplicarlos a otros corpus. Los análisis de Zilberberg son siempre penetrantes, y sus métodos fácilmente extrapolables.
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Se amplía el campo de la argumentación con una precisa, autorizada e informada descripción de las diversas posiciones o estilos en el tratamiento del tema, de enorme trascendencia por mostrar la posibilidad del uso de estas herramientas intelectuales y emotivas en la vida cotidiana de un pueblo.
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