The Pursuit Of Signs - Softcover

Culler, Jonathan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801414172 ISBN 13: 9780801414176

Publisher: Cornell University Press, 1981

Synopsis

To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-response criticism, the value of the apostrophe and much more, Jonathan Culler opens up for every reader the closed world of literary criticism. Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis'.

About this title

About the Author:

Jonathan Culler (1944- ), Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, pioneered the application of semiotics to the study of literature in the English-speaking world. Other publications include Structuralist Poetics and On Deconstruction.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0801414172
• ISBN 13: 9780801414176
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 242