The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction
10 best books like The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction (Jonathan Culler): Mother Night, Childhood's End, Last Orders, Lake Wobegon Days, Revolution in Poetic Language (European Perspectives Series), Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art, Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality, The Pleasure of the Text, Timequake, The Jesus Incident
| Author | Kurt Vonnegut |
| ISBN | 0385334141 |
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Mother Night is a daring challenge to our moral sense. American Howard W. Campbell, Jr., a spy during World War II, is now on trial in Israel as a Nazi war criminal. But is he really guilty? In this brilliant book rife with...
The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city--intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands: unify earth, eliminate poverty, and end war. With little rebellion, humankind agreed, and a golden age began.
But at what cost?...
| Author | Graham Swift |
| ISBN | 0330489674 |
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to have his ashes scattered into the sea. For reasons best known to herself, Jack's widow, Amy, declines to join them. On the surface the tale of a simple if increasingly bizarre day's outing, Last Orders is Graham...
| Author | Garrison Keillor |
| ISBN | 0670805149 |
Lake Wobegon. I have tried to read you over the years and every time I picked you up I was bored out of my mind. This time I tried audio. That helped. I can see why people love to listen to you; I can see why people don’t like to listen to you.
So, Lake Wobegon was founded by Unitarians, and it seemed...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231056435 |
نجد أن الأحداث السياسية والتاريخية التي عرفتها أوروبا وخصوصا فرنسا كانت غنية بحيث اسهمت كثيرا في بناء الفكر الغربي خلال القرن التاسع عشر. وتشكل المرحلة...
| Author | Julia Kristeva |
| ISBN | 0231048076 |
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."...
Feminine Endings: Music, Gender, and Sexuality
| Author | Susan McClary |
| ISBN | 0816641897 |
A groundbreaking collection of essays in feminist music criticism, this book addresses problems of gender and sexuality in repertoires ranging from the early seventeenth century to rock and performance art. “. . . this is a major book . . . [McClary’s] achievement borders on the miraculous.”...
| Author | Roland Barthes |
| ISBN | 0374521603 |
What is it that we do when we enjoy a text? What is the pleasure of reading? The French critic and theorist Roland Barthes's answers to these questions constitute "perhaps for the first time in the history of criticism . . . not only a poetics of reading . . . but a much more difficult achievement, an erotics...
According to science-fiction writer Kilgore Trout, a global timequake will occur in New York City on 13th February 2001. It is the moment when the universe suffers a crisis of conscience. Should it expand or make a great big bang? It decides to wind the clock back a decade to 1991, making everyone in the...
| Author | Frank Herbert |
| ISBN | 0441385397 |
A determined group of colonists are attempting to establish a bridgehead on the planet Pandora, despite the savagery of the native lifeforms, as deadly as they are inhospitable. But they have more to deal with than just murderous aliens: their ship's computer has been given artificial consciousness...
