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Ad Infinitum...the Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in An Essay in Corporeal Semioticsby Brian RotmanISBN 0804721289 (0-8047-2128-9)
Softcover, Stanford Univ Pr
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Apocalypse Postponedby Eco Umberto, Robert LumleyISBN 0253318513 (0-253-31851-3)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Apocalypse Postponed'Book summary:I would like to dedicate the book to those critics whom I have so summarily defined as apocalyptics. Without their unjust, biased, neurotic, desperate censure, I would never have elaborated three quarters of the ideas that I want to share here; without them, perhaps none of us would have realized that the question of mass culture is one in which we are all deeply involved. It is a sign of contradiction in our civilization. - Umberto Eco. This is a witty and erudite collection of Umberto Eco's essays on mass culture from the 1960s through the 1980s, including major pieces never before published in English. The discussion is framed by opposing characterizations of current intellectuals as either apocalyptic (or opposed to all mass culture) or integrated intellectuals (who are so much a part of mass culture as to be unaware of serving it). Organized into four main parts - "Mass Culture: Apocalypse Postponed," "Mass Media and the Limits of Communication," "The Rise and Fall of Countercultures," and "In Search of Italian Genius" - Eco's essays look at a variety of topics and cultural productions, including the world of Charlie Brown, distinctions between highbrow and lowbrow, the future of literacy, Chinese comic strips, whether countercultures exist, Fellini's "Ginger and Fred", and the Italian genius industry. [via]
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Apocalypse Postponedby Umberto Eco, Robert LumleyISBN 0851704468 (0-85170-446-8)
Softcover, Indiana University Press
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Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photographyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521344 (0-374-52134-4)
Softcover, Hill & Wang Pub
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Course in General Linguisticsby Ferdinand De SaussureISBN 0070165246 (0-07-016524-6)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Course in General Linguistics'Book summary:The Cours de linguistique generale, reconstructed from students' notes after Saussure's death in 1913, founded modern linguistic theory by breaking the study of language free from a merely historical and comparativist approach. Saussure's new method, now known as Structuralism, has since been applied to such diverse areas as art, architecture, folklore, literary criticism, and philosophy.[via]More editions of Course in General Linguistics:
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Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Artby Julia KristevaISBN 0231048076 (0-231-04807-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art'Book summary:Desire in Language traces the path of an investigation, extending over a period of ten years, into the semiotics of literature and the arts. But the essays of Julia Kristeva in this volume, though they often deal with literature and art, do not amount to either "literary criticism" or "art criticism." Their concern, writes Kristeva, "remains intratheoretical: they are based on art and literature in order to subvert the very theoretical, philosophical, or semiological apparatus."
Probing beyond the discoveries of Sigmund Freud, Jacques Lacan, Roman Jakobson and others, Julia Kristeva proposes and tests theories centered on the nature and development of the novel, and on what she has defined as a signifying practice in poetic language and pictural works. Desire in Language fully shows what Roman Jakobson has called Kristeva's "genuine gift of questioning generally adopted 'axioms,' and her contrary gift of releasing various 'damned questions' from their traditional question marks."
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 9685959242 (968-5959-24-2)
Softcover, Random House Mondadori
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El nombre de la rosa / The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 8497592581 (84-9759-258-1)
Softcover, Debolsillo
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Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521468 (0-374-52146-8)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elements of Semiology'Book summary:"In his Course in General Linguistics, first published in 1916, Saussure postulated the existence of a general science of signs, or Semiology, of which linguistics would form only one part. Semiology, therefore aims to take in any system of signs, whatever their substance and limits; images, gestures, musical sounds, objects, and the complex associations of all these, which form the content of ritual, convention or public entertainment: these constitute, if not languages, at least systems of signification . . . The Elements here presented have as their sole aim the extraction from linguistics of analytical concepts which we think a priori to be sufficiently general to start semiological research on its way. In assembling them, it is not presupposed that they will remain intact during the course of research; nor that semiology will always be forced to follow the linguistic model closely. We are merely suggesting and elucidating a terminology in the hope that it may enable an initial (albeit provisional) order to be introduced into the heterogeneous mass of significant facts. In fact what we purport to do is furnish a principle of classification of the questions. These elements of semiology will therefore be grouped under four main headings borrowed from structural linguistics: I. Language and Speech; II. Signified and Signifier; III. Syntagm and System; IV. Denotation and Connotation."--Roland Barthes, from his Introduction[via]More editions of Elements of Semiology:
Explanation and Power: The Control of Human Behaviorby Morse PeckhamISBN 0816616574 (0-8166-1657-4)
Softcover, Univ of Minnesota Pr
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The Fashion Systemby Richard Howard, Roland Barthes, Matthew WardISBN 0520071778 (0-520-07177-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinemaby Christian Metz, Michael TaylorISBN 0226521303 (0-226-52130-3)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema'Book summary:A pioneer in the field, Christian Metz applies insights of structural linguistics to the language of film.[via]
"The semiology of film . . . can be held to date from the publication in 1964 of the famous essay by Christian Metz, 'Le cinéma: langue ou langage?'"Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Times Literary Supplement
"Modern film theory begins with Metz."Constance Penley, coeditor of Camera Obscura
"Any consideration of semiology in relation to the particular field signifying practice of film passes inevitably through a reference to the work of Christian Metz. . . . The first book to be written in this field, [Film Language] is important not merely because of this primacy but also because of the issues it raises . . . issues that have become crucial to the contemporary argument."Stephen Heath, ScreenMore editions of Film Language: A Semiotics of the Cinema:
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845207056 (88-452-0705-6)
Hardcover, Bompiani
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521360 (0-374-52136-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Image, Music, Text'Book summary:Roland Barthes, the French critic and semiotician, was one of the most important critics and essayists of this century. His work continues to influence contemporary literary theory and cultural studies. Image-Music-Text collects Barthes's best writings on photography and the cinema, as well as fascinating articles on the relationship between images and sound. Two of Barthes's most important essays, "Introduction to the Structural Analysis of Narrative" and "The Death of the Author" are also included in this fine anthology, an excellent introduction to his thought. [via]
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Image, Music, Textby Stephen Heath, Roland BarthesISBN 0809057409 (0-8090-5740-9)
Hardcover, Hill and Wang
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The Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinemaby Christian MetzISBN 0253203805 (0-253-20380-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Employing Freudian psychoanalysis, Christian Metz explores the nature of cinematic spectatorship and looks at the operations of meaning in the film text.
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Imaginary Signifier: Psychoanalysis and the Cinema. Tr from the French by Ben Brewster. Tr of Le Signifiant Imaginaireby Christian MetzISBN 0253331056 (0-253-33105-6)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Industrial Democracy in America: Ideological Origins of National Labor Relations Policyby Howard DickmanISBN 0812690087 (0-8126-9008-7)
Softcover, Open Court Pub Co
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Introducing Barthesby Philip Thody, Richard Appignanesi, PieroISBN 1840467169 (1-84046-716-9)
Softcover, Totem Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Barthes'Book summary:This book brilliantly elucidates Barthes' application of these ideas to literature, popular culture, clothes and fashion, and explains why his thinking in this area made him a key figure in the structuralist movement of the 1960's. [via]
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Introducing Baudrillardby Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840460873 (1-84046-087-3)
Softcover, Totem Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Baudrillard'Book summary:Cuts beneath the controversy of misunderstood intellect, Jean Baudrillard, to present his radical claims that reality has been replaced by a simulated world of images and events ranging from TV news to Disneyland. [via]
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Introducing Baudrillardby Richard Appignanesi, Chris Horrocks, Zoran Jevtic, Jevtic ZoranISBN 1874166366 (1-874166-36-6)
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Introducing Semioticsby Litza Jansz, Martha Day, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840465840 (1-84046-584-0)
Softcover, Totem Books
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Introducing Semioticsby Paul Cobley, Richard AppignanesiISBN 1840460733 (1-84046-073-3)
Softcover, Natl Book Network
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Semiotics'Book summary:For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to study systems of signification, this book is the place to start. [via]
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Introducing Semioticsby Richard Appignanesi, Paul Cobley, Litza JanszISBN 1874166552 (1-874166-55-2)
Softcover, Totem Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introducing Semiotics'Book summary:Why study signs? This perennial question of philosophy is answered in the 20th century by the science of semiotics. An animal's cry, poetry, the medical symptom, media messages, language disorders, architecture, marketing, body language - all these, and more, fall within the sphere of semiotics. Introducing Semiotics outlines the development of sign study from its classical precursors to contemporary post-structuralism. Through Paul Cobley's text and Litza Jansz's illustrations, this seminal introduction identifies the key semioticians and their work and explains the simple concepts behind difficult terms. For anybody who wishes to know why signs are crucial to human existence and how we can begin to study systems of signification, this book is the place to start. [via]
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Isla Del Dia De Antes: Laura EsquivelISBN 8426412386 (84-264-1238-6)
Softcover, Lectorum Pubns
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The Island of the Day Beforeby Umberto Eco, William WeaverISBN 0156030373 (0-15-603037-3)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of the Day Before'Book summary:In 1643 a castaway comes upon an abandoned ship anchored off a desert island. As he explores the vessels mysterious cargo, he revisits the events of his tempestuous youth-and limns his eras obsession with science and navigation. Translated by William Weaver. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book[via]More editions of The Island of the Day Before:
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246442 (88-452-4644-2)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'L'Isola Del Giorno Prima'Book summary:Nell'estate del 1643 un giovane piemontese naufraga, nei mari del sud, su di una nave deserta. Di fronte a lui un'Isola che non può raggiungere. Intorno a lui un ambiente apparentemente accogliente. Solo, su un mare sconosciuto, Roberto de la Grive vede per la prima volta in vita sua cieli, acque, uccelli, piante, pesci e coralli che non sa come nominare. Scrive lettere d'amore, attraverso le quali si indovina la sua storia: una lenta e traumatica iniziazione al mondo secentesco della nuova scienza, della ragion di stato, di un cosmo in cui la terra non è più al centro dell'universo. Roberto vive la sua vicenda tutta giocata sulla memoria e sull'attesa di approdare a un'Isola che non è lontana solo nello spazio, ma anche nel tempo. [via]
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LA Chambre Claireby Roland BarthesISBN 207020541X (2-07-020541-X)
Softcover, Midwest European Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'LA Chambre Claire'Book summary:Suite de petits essais de Roland Barthes sur la photographie. [via]
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Languages of Artby Nelson GoodmanISBN 0915144344 (0-915144-34-4)
Softcover, Hackett Pub Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Languages of Art'Book summary:"Like Dewey, he has revolted against the empiricist dogma and the Kantian dualisms which have compartmentalized philosophical thought...Unlike Dewey, he has provided detailed incisive argumentation, and has shown just where the dogmas and dualisms break down." -- Richard Rorty, The Yale Review [via]
The Major Film Theories: An Introductionby Dudley Andrew, James Dudley AndrewISBN 0195019911 (0-19-501991-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodernby Douglas KellnerISBN 0415105706 (0-415-10570-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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Modern French Philosophyby Vincent Descombes, L. Scott-Fox, J. M. Harding, Alan MontefioreISBN 0521296722 (0-521-29672-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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Mythologiesby R. BarthesISBN 0374521506 (0-374-52150-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:L'Antiquité avait son Oedipe, le Grand Siècle son roi Soleil, et voilà que Barthes donne à la France de l'après-guerre ses nouveaux emblèmes : la DS Citroën, le Tour de France, le steak frites... Tous objets d'un culte bourgeois, ils deviennent de véritables mythes pour une société qui finit par se penser à travers eux. Mais si Barthes se penche avec la rigueur de l'ethnologue sur ces nouveaux mythes, c'est pour mieux en dénoncer les mécanismes : l'idéologie dominante ne s'inventerait ainsi des valeurs que pour légitimer des "normes bourgeoises" qui en manquent singulièrement...
Écrites quotidiennement de 1954 à 1956, ces mythologies déploient une écriture fine, cultivée et juste, à lire comme autant de petites chroniques savoureuses. Toutefois, on les retiendra avant tout pour l'actualité de leurs propos : sur le même modèle, on trouverait sans peine de nouvelles mythologies, qui ne seraient sans doute pas très éloignées de celles que Barthes, en son temps, mettait en évidence. --Karla Manuele [via]
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Mythologiesby Yves Bonnefoy, Wendy Doniger, Gerald HonigsblumISBN 0226064530 (0-226-06453-0)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mythologies'Book summary:"The appearance of this monumental work in a beautifully produced and richly illustrated English edition is a publishing event of considerable significance."Mark C. Taylor, New York Times Book Review[via]
"The almost 100 contributors combine, with characteristic precision and elan, the arts of science and poetry, of analysis and translation. The result is a treasury of information, brilliant guesswork, witty asides, and revealing digressions. This is a work of genuine and enduring excitement."Thomas D'Evelyn, Christian Science MonitorMore editions of Mythologies:
The Name of the Roseby Umberto EcoISBN 1417706112 (1-4177-0611-2)
Hardcover, Bt Bound
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Name Of The Rose'Book summary:"A brilliantly conceived adventure into another time" (San Francisco Chronicle) by critically acclaimed author Umberto Eco. The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns to the logic of Aristotle, the theology of Aquinas, and the empirical insights of Roger Bacon to find the killer. He collects evidence, deciphers secret symbols and coded manuscripts, and digs into the eerie labyrinth of the abbey ("where the most interesting things happen at night") armed with a wry sense of humor and a ferocious curiosity. [via]
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The Open Workby Umberto Eco, Anna CancogniISBN 0674639766 (0-674-63976-6)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Open Work'Book summary:More than twenty years after its original appearance in Italian, The Open Work remains significant for its powerful concept of "openness"--the artist's decision to leave arrangements of some constituents of a work to the public or to chance--and for its striking anticipation of two major themes of contemporary literary theory: the element of multiplicity and plurality in art, and the insistence on literary response as an interactive process between reader and text. The questions Umberto Eco raises, and the answers he suggests, are intertwined in the continuing debate on literature, art, and culture in general.
This entirely new edition, edited for the English-language audience with the approval of Eco himself, includes an authoritative introduction by David Robey that explores Eco's thought at the period of The Open Work, prior to his absorption in semiotics. The book now contains key essays on Eco's mentor Luigi Pareyson, on television and mass culture, and on the politics of art. Harvard University Press will publish separately and simultaneously the extended study of James Joyce that was originally part of The Open Work, entitled The Aesthetics of Chaosmos: The Middle Ages of James Joyce. The Open Work explores a set of issues in aesthetics that remain central to critical theory, and does so in a characteristically vivid style. Eco's convincing manner of presenting ideas and his instinct for the lively example are threaded compellingly throughout. This book is at once a major treatise in modern aesthetics and an excellent introduction to Eco's thought.
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Philosophical Writings of Peirceby C. S. PeirceISBN 0486202178 (0-486-20217-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Positionsby Christopher Norris, Jacques Derrida, Alan BassISBN 0826459927 (0-8264-5992-7)
Softcover, Continuum Intl Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:This new edition of a key, accessible text to the work of the most influential psychoanalytic and literary critic alive today includes a new introduction by Christopher Norris setting these key early interviews in the context of the full trajectory of Derrida's thought.[via] -
Positionsby Jacques DerridaISBN 0226143317 (0-226-14331-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Positions'Book summary:Positions is a collection of three interviews with Jacques Derrida that illuminate and make more accessible the complex concepts and terms treated extensively in such works as Writing and Difference and Dissemination. Derrida takes positions on his detractors, his supporters, and the two major preoccupations of French intellectual life, Marxism and psychoanalysis.[via]
The interviews included in this volume offer a multifaceted view of Derrida. "Implications: Interview with Henri Ronse" contains a succinct statement of principles. "Seminology and Grammatology: Interview with Julia Kristeva" provides important clarifications of the role played by linguistics in Derrida's work. "Positions: Interview with Jean-Louis Houdebine and Guy Scarpetta" is a wide-ranging discussion that touches on many of the polemics that Derrida's work as provoked.
Alan Bass, whose translation of Writing and Difference was highly praised for its clarity, accuracy, and readability, has provided extremely useful critical notes, full of vital information, including historical background. 
Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjectionby Julia Kristeva, Leon S. RoudiezISBN 0231053479 (0-231-05347-9)
Softcover, Columbia University Press
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A Rhetoric of Motives.by Kenneth BurkeISBN 0520015460 (0-520-01546-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Rhetoric of Motives.'Book summary:As critic, Kenneth Burke's preoccupations were at the beginning purely esthetic and literary; but after Counter-Statement (1931), he began to discriminate a "rhetorical" or persuasive component in literature, and thereupon became a philosopher of language and human conduct.[via]
In A Grammar of Motives (1945) and A Rhetoric of Motives (1950), Burke's conception of "symbolic action" comes into its own: all human activities--linguisitc or extra-linguistic--are modes of symbolizing; man is defined as the symbol-using (and -misusing) animal. The critic's job becomes one of the interpreting human symbolizing wherever he finds it, with the aim of illuminating human motivation. Thus the reach of the literary critic now extends to the social and ethical.
A Grammar of Motives is a "methodical meditation" on such complex linguistic forms as plays, stories, poems, theologies, metaphysical systems, political philosophies, constitutions. A Rhetoric of Motives expands the field to human ways of persuasion and identification. Persuasion, as Burke sees it, "ranges from the bluntest quest of advantage, as in sales promotion or propaganda, through courtship, social etiquette, education, and the sermon, to a 'pure' form that delights in the process of appeal for itself alone, without ulterior purpose. And identification ranges from the politician who, addressing an audience of farmers, says, 'I was a farm boy myself,' through the mysteries of social status, to the mystic's devout identification with the sources of all being."More editions of A Rhetoric of Motives.:
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The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Textsby Umberto EcoISBN 025320318X (0-253-20318-X)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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"... essential reading for anyone interesting in... the new reader-centered forms of criticism." Library Journal
In this erudite and imaginative book, Umberto Eco sets forth a dialectic between open and closed texts.
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S/Zby Roland BarthesISBN 0374521670 (0-374-52167-0)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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› Find signed collectible books: 'S/Z'Book summary:S/Z is the linguistic distillation of Barthes's system of semiology, a science of signs and symbols, in which Balzac's novella, Sarrasine, is dissected semantically to uncover layers of hidden meaning. [via]
S/Zby Honore De Balzac, Roland BarthesISBN 0809083752 (0-8090-8375-2)
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Semiologyby Pierre GuiraudISBN 0710080050 (0-7100-8005-0)
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Serendipities: Language & Lunacyby Umberto EcoISBN 0156007517 (0-15-600751-7)
Softcover, Harcourt
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Serendipities: Language & Lunacy'Book summary:The multitalented Umberto Eco--novelist, critic, and literary theorist--turns his attention to the history of linguistics. In linguistics, as in the other sciences, Eco explains, there are serendipities: "Even the most lunatic experiments can produce strange side effects, stimulating research that proves perhaps less amusing but scientifically more serious." In his earlier book The Search for the Perfect Language, for example, he discussed the project of discovering the language spoken before the collapse of the Tower of Babel. Although misconceived, the project by chance led to advances in mathematical logic, artificial intelligence, and even world peace--the goal of artificial languages like Esperanto and the unfortunately named Volapük. In the five essays in Serendipities, Eco explores some related serendipitous episodes in the history of linguistics; as always, his characteristic blend of playfulness and erudition is bound to be irresistible to any lover of language.
The first essay, "The Force of Falsity," discusses false documents with momentous repercussions, such as the letter of Prester John, which encouraged European explorers and conquerors to seek its supposed author, the Christian ruler of a distant and fantastically wealthy land. In the second essay, Eco considers Dante's relation to the idea of the perfect language. The third essay discusses early misinterpretations of Egyptian, Chinese, and Mexican ideograms. The Jesuit savant Athanasius Kircher, for example, devoted page upon page to mystical interpretations of a hieroglyph that later turned out to represent nothing more profound than the Greek letter lambda. The remaining two essays are devoted to single authors: "The Language of the Austral Land" concerns Gabriel de Foigny's instructive parody of contemporary attempts to devise the perfect language, while "The Linguistics of Joseph de Maistre" endeavors, with indifferent success, to make sense of the counterrevolutionary Savoyard's musings on the nature of language. --Glenn Branch [via]
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Social Semioticsby Gunther Kress, Robert HodgeISBN 0745603734 (0-7456-0373-4)
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A Society of Signs?by David HarrisISBN 0415111293 (0-415-11129-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Society of Signs?'Book summary:An introduction to current debates around the themes of culture, identity and lifestyle. Such debates often begin with the assertion that we live in a "society of signs". Features include: summary and critical discussion of some basic approaches in social theory and cultural analysis; key readings of some of the work of writers including Barthes and Giddens; reviews of work in more traditional areas, for example, the sociology of identity and the embedding process found in social life; and advice on further reading. [via]
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Systeme De LA Modeby Roland BarthesISBN 2020063794 (2-02-006379-4)
Hardcover, Editions Du Seuil
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Technologies of Gender: Essays on Theory, Film, and Fictionby Teresa De LauretisISBN 0253204410 (0-253-20441-0)
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"... sets philosophical ideas humming.... she has much to say." Cineaste
"I can think of no other work that pushes the debate on the female subject forward with such passion and intellectual rigor." SubStance
This book addresses the question of gender in poststructuralist theoretical discourse, postmodern fiction, and womens cinema. It examines the construction of gender both as representation and as self-representation in relation to several kinds of texts and argues that feminism is producing a radical rewriting, as well as a rereading, of the dominant forms of Western culture.
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A Theory of Semioticsby Umberto EcoISBN 0253202175 (0-253-20217-5)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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Writing Degree Zero, and Elements of Semiologyby Roland BarthesISBN 0224022679 (0-224-02267-9)
Hardcover, J. Cape
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Apocalipticos E Integradosby Umberto EcoISBN 8472238695 (84-7223-869-5)
Softcover, Ediciones Urano
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La Isla Del Dia De Antesby Umberto Eco, Random House MondadoriISBN 8497593847 (84-9759-384-7)
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La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Islandby Umberto EcoISBN 8426414397 (84-264-1439-7)
Hardcover, Random House Mondadori
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› Find signed collectible books: 'La Isla Del Dia De Antes/ the Previous Day Island'Book summary:Tras el éxito de El nombre de la rosa y El péndulo de Foucault , Umberto Eco vuelve a la novela para contarnos la historia de Roberto de la Grive, un joven piamontés que en el verano de 1963 llega como náufrago a una nave abandonada en los Mares del Sur, y en la embarcación solo encuentra animales desconocidos y extrañas máquinas. Confinado en este exiguo espacio, Roberto nos pone al corriente de su pasado y nos lleva hasta la época renacentista para hacernos partícipes de duelos y lances amorosos, de especulaciones intelectuales entorno a los cálculos que falicitaron en aquel entonces la navegación y los artilugios que permitieron al hombre ir avanzando en el descubrimiento de tierras lejanas. Novela filosófica y a la vez de aventuras, La isla del día de antes se suma felizmente a la gran tradición de Swift y Voltaire para indagar con el poder de la imaginación los fallos y pecados de nuestra realidad. [via]
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El Nombre De La Rosaby Umberto Eco, Ricardo PochtarISBN 8426411487 (84-264-1148-7)
Hardcover, Editorial Lumen
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Cours De Linguistique Generaleby Ferdinand De Saussure, Tullio De Mauro, Charles Bally, Albert Sechehaye, Albert RiedlingerISBN 2228500704 (2-228-50070-4)
Hardcover, Payot
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cours De Linguistique Generale'Book summary:Le Cours de Saussure constitue un ouvrage clé pour quiconque s'intéresse au langage et aux langues ; il est considéré comme fondateur de la linguistique moderne. C'est là que se trouvent exprimés pour la première fois certains des concepts les plus féconds de la linguistique : oppositions binaires (langue/parole, signifiant/signifié, synchronie/diachronie), arbitraire du signe. Ces concepts seront largement affinés ou contestés, et nourriront la réflexion de générations de linguistes.
Avec la reproduction de l'édition originale de 1916 établie par les élèves de Saussure d'après leurs notes, le lecteur trouvera un appareil critique complet dû à Tullio de Mauro, dont une biographie de Saussure et des notes. Les commentaires sont particulièrement instructifs, car ils font apparaître les violentes critiques qui ont suivi la publication du Cours, ainsi que l'influence considérable qu'il a exercée et continue d'exercer. Ce livre peut être lu sans connaissances préalables en linguistique. --Guillaume Segerer [via]
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Pouvoirs De L'horreur: Essai Sur L'abjectionby Julia KristevaISBN 2020055392 (2-02-005539-2)
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L'uvre Ouverteby Umberto EcoISBN 2020053276 (2-02-005327-6)
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Il Nome Della Rosaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845246345 (88-452-4634-5)
Softcover, Rl Libri
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Il Nome Della Rosa'Book summary:"II libro più intelligente - ma anche il più divertente - di questi ultimi anni."Lars Gustafsson, Der Spicgel"II libro è così ricco che permette tutti i livelli di lettura ... Eco, ancora bravo!"Robert Maggiori, Libération"Brio e ironia. Eco è andato a scuola dai migliori modelli".Richard Ellmann, The New York Review of Books"Precisamente il genere di libro che, se fossi un milionario, comanderei su misura".Punch"Quando Baskerville e Adso entrarono nella stanza murata allo scoccare della mezzanotte e all'ultima parola del capitolo, ho sentito, anche se è fuori moda, un caratteristico sobbalzo al cuore."Nicholas Shrimplon, The Sunday Times"È riuscito a scrivere un libro che si legge tutto d'un fiato, accattivante, comico, inatteso ..."Mario Fusco, Le Monde"È un tipo di libro che ci trasforma, che sostituisce la nostra realtà con la sua ... ci presenta un mondo nuovo nella tradizione di Rabelais, Cervantes, Sterne, Melville, Dostoevskij, lo stesso Joyce e Garda Miirquez."Kenneth Atchity, Los Angeles Times"Mi rallegro e tutto il mondo delle lettere si rallegrerà con me, che si possa diventare best seller contro i pronostici cibernetici, e che un'opera di letteratura genuina possa soppiantare il ciarpame ... L'alta qualità e il successo non si escludono a vicenda."Anthony Burgess, The Observer [via]
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L'Isola Del Giorno Primaby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228134 (88-452-2813-4)
Softcover, Distribooks Inc
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O Quarto Iconoclasmo E Outros Ensaios Heregesby Arlindo MachadoISBN 8587184172 (85-87184-17-2)
Hardcover, Contra Capa
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