BOOKS - Semiotics and Interpretation
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69153
69153
Semiotics and Interpretation
Author: Nancy F. Cott
Year: 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 7.7 MB
Language: English
Year: 2018
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 7.7 MB
Language: English
Accessible yet challenging this book will be the indispensable introductory text for semiotics indeed for any theoretical course in the humanities and social sciences that deals with the theory of these disciplines Choice The book offers a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied which Schole s patient cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection Terence Hawkes Times Literary Supplement This critique demonstrates once more that Scholes is one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of semiotics The Antioch Review Scholes applies the range of semiotic theory to a series of other texts poems stories films a scene from a play bumper stickers even a part of the human anatomy When we finish this text which includes a useful glossary and descriptive bibliography we feel that we have learned the basic principles of semiotics and can apply them in our teaching and criticism as a bonus we gain many new insights into familiar texts Richard Pearce Novel Scholes is among our best interpreters of literary theory He provides not only an argument for semiotics but an informed criticism of it as well Martin Green The Literary Review