Structuralism and Semiotics

Author:   Terence Hawkes (Emeritus Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Edition:   2nd edition
ISBN:  

9780415321525


Pages:   188
Publication Date:   17 July 2003
Format:   Hardback
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Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers have used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics, but into the wide range of cultural and critical theories underpinned by these approaches. This book remains the clearest introduction to some of the most important topics in modern critical theory. A new afterword and fresh suggestions for further reading complete this new edition.

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Author:   Terence Hawkes (Emeritus Professor of English, Cardiff University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd edition
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 19.80cm
Weight:   0.362kg
ISBN:  

9780415321525


ISBN 10:   0415321522
Pages:   188
Publication Date:   17 July 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

General Editor’s Preface 1 Introduction Vico; Piaget; Structuralism2 Linguistics and Anthropology 3 The Structures of Literature 4 A Science of Signs 5 Conclusions: New ‘New Criticism’ For Old ‘New Criticism’?

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'A compact volume that performs marvels in the difficult art of summarizing (without betrayal) the complex theories that for the past seventy-five years have been labelled structuralist . Hawkes ranges from Vico to Barthes, writing with a lucidity and grasp of the essential points that is nothing short of astonishing.' - Choice 'Occasionally a book appears which, because of its scope and vision, serves not just as a tool for our field, but as a suggestion of a larger enterprise. Hawkes provides such a work in this exposition and synthesis of major figures and works of the intellectual movement structuralism and it derivative semiotics. His treatment is thorough and scholarly, yet accessible to readers not already versed in the methods, concepts and argot of the movement.' - Quarterly Journal of Speech


Author Information

Terence Hawkes is Emeritus Professor of English at Cardiff University. He is the author of a number of books on literary theory and on Shakespeare, including That Shakespeherian Rag (1986), Meaning by Shakespeare (1992) and Shakespeare in the Present (2002). He is General Editor of New Accents and of the Accents on Shakespeare series, also published by Routledge, and was the founding Editor of Textual Practice.

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