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The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99$29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His rese...
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Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /"Eco wittily and enchantingly develops themes often touched on in his previous works, but he delves deeper into their complex nature . . . this c...
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Semicolon: The Past, Present, and Future of a Misunderstood Mark
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /“Delightful.” —Mary Norris, The New Yorker A page-turning, existential romp through the life and times of the world’s most polarizing punctuation...
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The Interpretation of Cultures
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /One of the twentieth century's most influential books, this classic work of anthropology offers a groundbreaking exploration of what culture is W...
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The Romantic Manifesto: A Philosophy of Literature; Revised Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /In this beautifully written and brilliantly reasoned book, Ayn Rand throws a new light on the nature of art and its purpose in human life. Once a...
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The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols
PaperbackOriginal price $26.00Original price $26.00 - Original price $26.00Original price $26.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This remarkable and wide-ranging book is an inventory of symbols and the symbolic imagination. The editors and their fifteen contributors are dra...
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After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99$28.99$28.99 - $28.99Current price $28.99| /When it first appeared in 1975, After Babel created a sensation, quickly establishing itself as both a controversial and seminal study of literar...
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The Great Code: The Bible and Literature
PaperbackOriginal price $16.99 - Original price $16.99Original price $16.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An examination of the influence of the Bible on Western art and literature and on the Western creative imagination in general. Frye persuasively ...
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To Have or To Be? / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$38.99$38.99 - $38.99Current price $38.99| /To Have Or to Be? is one of the seminal books of the second half of the 20th century. Nothing less than a manifesto for a new social and psycholo...
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as Praxis
PaperbackOriginal price $28.95 - Original price $28.95Original price $28.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /The Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in histo...
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Sexuality Beyond Consent: Risk, Race, Traumatophilia
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Radical alternatives to consent and traumaArguing that we have become culturally obsessed with healing trauma, Sexuality Beyond Consent calls att...
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Storythinking: The New Science of Narrative Intelligence
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Every time we think ahead, we are crafting a story. Every daily plan—and every political vision, social movement, scientific hypothesis, business...
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Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Susan Sontag's celebrated essays on cancer and AIDS now available in one volume.In 1978, Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work describ...
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A Theory of Musical Semiotics
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$55.99$55.99 - $55.99Current price $55.99| /"Since [Tarasti's] is unquestionably the most fully developed narrative theory in the literature, this book is an important landmark . . . " —Mus...
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The Telephone Book: Technology, Schizophrenia, Electric Speech
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /The telephone marks the place of an absence. Affiliated with discontinuity, alarm, and silence, it raises fundamental questions about the constit...
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The Theory Toolbox: Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences / Edition 2
PaperbackOriginal price $47.00 - Original price $47.00Original price $47.00$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an i...
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The Political Logic of Experience: Expression in Phenomenology
PaperbackOriginal price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00$44.99$44.99 - $44.99Current price $44.99| /The Political Logic of Experience argues that experience and phenomenology are essentially political, with profound implications for our understand...
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On the Inconvenience of Other People
PaperbackOriginal price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /In On the Inconvenience of Other People Lauren Berlant continues to explore our affective engagement with the world. Berlant focuses on the encount...
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Singular Pasts: The I in Historiography
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Today, history is increasingly written in the first person. A growing number of historical works include an autobiographical dimension, as if writi...
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Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.Produc...
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Comics and Cognition: Toward a Multimodal Cognitive Poetics
HardcoverOriginal price $99.00 - Original price $99.00Original price $99.00$117.99$117.99 - $117.99Current price $117.99| /Comics and Cognition develops an analytical approach to multimodal communication in comics through insights from embodied cognitive science, especi...
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The Sound of Writing
PaperbackOriginal price $54.95 - Original price $54.95Original price $54.95$69.99$69.99 - $69.99Current price $69.99| /An interdisciplinary exploration of how writers have conveyed sound through text.Edited by Christopher Cannon and Steven Justice, The Sound of Writ...
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Heidegger and Literary Studies
HardcoverOriginal price $110.00 - Original price $110.00Original price $110.00$129.99$129.99 - $129.99Current price $129.99| /Martin Heidegger is one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th Century, and a key philosophical resource for literary critics. Not only h...
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /What do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations? Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptio...
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