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        Semiotics

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        The Quest for Meaning

        The Quest for Meaning

        A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice, Second Edition

        by Marcel Danesi

        Price:

        $38.95

        ISBN: 9781487523510

        Pub Date: September 2020

        The go-to introductory guide to semiotic theory and practice, this second edition features a new chapter on semiotics in the digital age and sheds light on how we grasp for meaning in the modern world.

        The Primacy of Semiosis

        The Primacy of Semiosis

        An Ontology of Relations

        by Paul Bains

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        $42.95

        ISBN: 9781442626980

        Pub Date: January 2014

        The Primacy of Semiosis provides a semiotic that subverts the opposition between realism and idealism; one in which what have been called 'nature' and 'culture' interpenetrate in an expanding collective of human and non-human.

        Cybersemiotics

        Cybersemiotics

        Why Information Is Not Enough

        by Soren Brier

        Price:

        $54.00

        ISBN: 9781442626362

        Pub Date: August 2013

        Cybersemiotics not only builds a bridge between science and culture, it provides a framework that encompasses them both.

        Remodelling Communication

        Remodelling Communication

        From WWII to the WWW

        by Gary Genosko

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        $35.95

        ISBN: 9781442615830

        Pub Date: May 2013

        Providing a dynamic, forward-looking reorientation towards a new universe of reference, Remodelling Communication makes a significant, productive contribution to communication theory.

        Joyces Mistakes

        Joyces Mistakes

        Problems of Intention, Irony, and Interpretation

        by Tim Conley

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        $35.95

        ISBN: 9781442612983

        Pub Date: October 2011

        In Joyces Mistakes, Tim Conley explores the question of what constitutes an 'error' in a work of art. Using the works of James Joyce, particularly Ulysses and Finnegans Wake, as central exploratory fields, Conley argues that an 'aesthetic of error' permeates Joyce's literary productions.

        Four Ages of Understanding

        Four Ages of Understanding

        The First Postmodern Survey of Philosophy from Ancient Times to the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

        by John Deely

        Price:

        $79.00

        ISBN: 9781442613010

        Pub Date: October 2011

        The first full-scale demonstration of the centrality of the theory of signs to the history of philosophy, Four Ages of Understanding provides a new vantage point from which to review and reinterpret the development of intellectual culture at the threshold of "globalization".

        Power of Scandal

        Power of Scandal

        Semiotic and Pragmatic in Mass Media

        by P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ

        Price:

        $100.00

        ISBN: 9781442641259

        Pub Date: March 2011

        By examining the parallel worlds of media and public opinion, Power of Scandal uses an alternative heuristic for understanding mass communication that is both rigorous and sophisticated.

        Irresistible Signs

        Irresistible Signs

        The Genius of Language and Italian National Identity

        by Paola Gambarota

        Price:

        $106.00

        ISBN: 9781442642980

        Pub Date: February 2011

        In Irresistible Signs, Paola Gambarota investigates the connection between Italian language and national identity over four hundred years, from late-Renaissance linguistic theories to nineteenth-century nationalist myths.

        Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

        Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations

        Traversing Chinese and Western Theories of the Sign

        by Ersu Ding

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        $62.00

        ISBN: 9781442640481

        Pub Date: November 2010

        The first major work in Sino-Western comparative semiotics, Parallels, Interactions, and Illuminations is a trans-disciplinary and intercultural effort that makes intellectual connections not only across diverse academic fields but also between Chinese and Western theories of the sign.

        On the Comic and Laughter

        On the Comic and Laughter

        by Vladimir Propp

        Edited and translated by Jean-Patrick Debbèche and Paul J. Perron

        Price:

        $62.00

        ISBN: 9780802099266

        Pub Date: November 2009

        The author of the widely acclaimed Morphology of the Folktale has written an original, comprehensive, and exciting study on how humour works, and on everything you wanted to know about the genre, in a clear, approachable, and insightful manner.

        The Extended Mind

        The Extended Mind

        The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind, and Culture

        by Robert K. Logan

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        $47.95

        ISBN: 9780802096432

        Pub Date: June 2008

        In The Extended Mind, Robert K. Logan examines the origin, emergence, and co-evolution of language, the human mind, and culture.

        Teaching Adolescents

        Teaching Adolescents

        Educational Psychology as a Science of Signs

        by Howard Smith

        Price:

        $90.00

        ISBN: 9780802090997

        Pub Date: March 2007

        Grounded in the semiotic thought of Charles Sanders Peirce, America's greatest polymath, Howard A. Smith's Teaching Adolescents addresses topics in educational psychology from a semiotic or sign-based perspective rather than a behavioural one.

        Deleuze and Space

        Deleuze and Space

        Edited by Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert

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        $53.00

        ISBN: 9780802093905

        Pub Date: August 2005

        This collection takes up the challenge of thinking spatially by exploring Deleuze's spatial concepts in applied contexts: architecture, cinema, urban planning, political philosophy, and metaphysics.

        Cinema and Semiotic

        Cinema and Semiotic

        Peirce and Film Aesthetics, Narration, and Representation

        by P. Johannes Ehrat, SJ

        Price:

        $149.00

        ISBN: 9780802039125

        Pub Date: March 2005

        Based on Peirce's Semiotic and Pragmatism, Ehrat offers a novel approach to cinematic meaning in three central areas: narrative enunciation, cinematic world appropriation, and cinematic perception.

        Poiesis and Possible Worlds

        Poiesis and Possible Worlds

        A Study in Modality and Literary Theory

        by Thomas L. Martin

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        $81.00

        ISBN: 9780802036414

        Pub Date: October 2004

        Martin argues that literary studies remain mired in the anomalies of a linguistic methodology derived from early 20th-century language philosophy, a view challenged not only by theoretical physics, but also by compelling advances in philosophic semantics.

        Conversations with Lotman

        Conversations with Lotman

        The Implications of Cultural Semiotics in Language, Literature, and Cognition

        by Edna Andrews

        Price:

        $107.00

        ISBN: 9780802036865

        Pub Date: September 2003

        Andrews grapples with Lotman's difficult, sometimes contradictory, theories of human language, perception, and memory, offering semioticians the opportunity to read the first sustained study of Lotman's work in English.

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