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Handbook of Semiotics

Handbook of Semiotics

Author: Winfried Noth
ISBN: 9780253209597
Format: Paperback
$89.95

Covers the field of semiotics from Aesthetics to Zoosemiotics. This work contains sixty-five encyclopedic articles,...  Read More >>

The Norton Book of Modern War

The Norton Book of Modern War

Author: Paul Fussell
ISBN: 9780393029093
Format: Hardback
$65.87

Here are moments on the battlefields of this century captured in the words of writers who faced wars in their newest...  Read More >>

Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin and Edith Wharton

Verging on the Abyss: The Social Fiction of Kate Chopin...

Author: Mary Elizabeth Papke
ISBN: 9780313268779
Format: Hardback
$140.00

While neither Kate Chopin nor Edith Wharton can be called feminist writers, each did produce female moral art, writings...  Read More >>

Literature and Cognition

Literature and Cognition

Author: Jerry R. Hobbs
ISBN: 9780937073537
Format: Hardback
$74.95

Cognitive science, with its guiding metaphor of the mind as a computer, has made substantial progress towards an...  Read More >>

Time and Narrative, Volume 3

Time and Narrative, Volume 3

Author: Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) ,  Kathleen Blamey
ISBN: 9780226713366
Format: Paperback
$49.95

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical...  Read More >>

Time and Narrative, Volume 2

Time and Narrative, Volume 2

Author: Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) ,  Kathleen McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780226713342
Format: Paperback
$37.95

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical...  Read More >>

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Time and Narrative, Volume 1

Author: Paul Ricoeur (Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris X and at the University of Chicago) ,  Kathleen McLaughlin
ISBN: 9780226713328
Format: Paperback
$39.95

In the first two volumes of this work, Paul Ricoeur examined the relations between time and narrative in historical...  Read More >>

Seeing Through Language: A Guide to Styles of English Writing

Seeing Through Language: A Guide to Styles of English...

Author: Ronald Carter (University of Nottingham) ,  Walter Nash (University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780631151357
Format: Paperback
$76.95

Riddle : Why is a telescope like a bad excuse? Answer : Because anyone can see through it. The authors of this...  Read More >>

Lexical Semantics without Thematic Roles

Lexical Semantics without Thematic Roles

Author: Yael Ravin (Research Staff Member, Research Staff Member, Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM, New York)
ISBN: 9780198248316
Format: Hardback
$111.95

This book argues that thematic roles are not valid semantic entities, and that syntax and semantics are indeed autonomous...  Read More >>

100 Writing Remedies: Practical Exercises for Technical Writing

100 Writing Remedies: Practical Exercises for Technical...

Author: Edmond H. Weiss
ISBN: 9780897746380
Format: Paperback
$46.00

100 Writing Remedies is the only workbook/reference that shows students how to debug faulty writing and improve...  Read More >>

CREATIVE WRITING PAPER

CREATIVE WRITING PAPER

Author: MUELLER ,  Jerry D. Reynolds
ISBN: 9780844253657
Format: Paperback
$98.47

Romanian, because of its Latin origin and the fact that it has borrowed words from other Romance languages, will...  Read More >>

Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language

Melodious Guile: Fictive Pattern in Poetic Language...

Author: John Hollander
ISBN: 9780300049046
Format: Paperback
$34.95

"Demonstrating a poet's imaginative ear and a critic's range of concern, John Hollander here writes about the ""melodious...  Read More >>

Demonstratives

Demonstratives

Author: Palle Yourgrau (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Brandeis University)
ISBN: 9780198248682
Format: Paperback
$75.95

This collection brings together an important set of previously published papers which seek to provide the correct...  Read More >>

Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers, and Texts

Literacy as Involvement: The Acts of Writers, Readers,...

Author: Deborah Brandt
ISBN: 9780809315703
Format: Hardback
$49.50

In Literacy as Involvement, Deborah Brandt examines the cultural and social roots of the acts of reading and writing....  Read More >>

Fatal Strategies

Fatal Strategies

Author: Jean Baudrillard ,  Semiotext
ISBN: 9780745304090
Format: Paperback
$31.02

The last work from Baudrillard's critical canon to be translated into English, this collection of essays includes...  Read More >>

Demonstratives

Demonstratives

Author: Palle Yourgrau
ISBN: 9780198248699
Format: Hardback
$130.00

This collection brings together an important set of previously published papers which seek to provide the correct...  Read More >>

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1987

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1987...

Author: Erika Lindemann ,  Sandra Monroe
ISBN: 9780809316489
Format: Paperback
$63.39

Published by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this publication offers teachers and researchers...  Read More >>

Deeds Done in Words

Deeds Done in Words

Author: Karlyn Kohrs Campbell ,  Kathleen Hall Jamieson
ISBN: 9780226092416
Format: Hardback
$121.44

"""Deeds Done in Words is an impressive piece of work. It is the first attempt to identify and assess the principal...  Read More >>

Toward Non-Essentialist Sociolinguistics

Toward Non-Essentialist Sociolinguistics

Author: Karol Janicki
ISBN: 9783110121575
Format: Hardback
$258.75

"No detailed description available for ""Toward Non-Essentialist Sociolinguistics""."  Read More >>

Readings from Classical Rhetoric

Readings from Classical Rhetoric

Author: Patricia P. Matsen ,  Philip B. Rollinson
ISBN: 9780809315932
Format: Paperback
$77.88

Here, for the first time in one volume, are all the extant writings focusing on rhetoric that were composed before...  Read More >>

Siftings

Siftings

Author: Jens Jensen ,  Charles E. Little
ISBN: 9780801840210
Format: Paperback
$64.99

As he sifts through a lifetime of ideas about gardens, cities, towns and parks, Jensen makes an eloquent case for...  Read More >>

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1987

Cccc Bibliography of Composition and Rhetoric, 1987...

Author: LINDEMANN ,  Erika Lindemann
ISBN: 9780809316472
Format: Hardback
$89.27

Published by the Conference on College Composition and Communication, this publication offers teachers and researchers...  Read More >>

The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the Conduct of Inquiry

The Rhetorical Turn: Invention and Persuasion in the...

Author: Herbert W. Simons (Temple University)
ISBN: 9780226759012
Format: Hardback
$175.95

"We have only recently started to challenge the notion that ""serious"" inquiry can be free of rhetoric, that it...  Read More >>

Gottfried Benn: Ein Schriftsteller zwischen Erneuerung und Reaktion

Gottfried Benn: Ein Schriftsteller zwischen Erneuerung...

Author: Hugh Ridley
ISBN: 9783531120430
Format: Paperback
$121.59

Es versucht eine grundsätzliche These zu entwickeln und zu belegen: die These nämlich, daß das Werk Benns kei­ neswegs...  Read More >>

The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately

The Rhetoric of Blair, Campbell, and Whately

Author: James L. Golden ,  Edward P. J. Corbett
ISBN: 9780809316021
Format: Paperback
$77.88

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