This widely acclaimed work remains an important and vital work of literary scholarship. Covering semiotics, reader response criticism, and the value of the apos

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

Contributors include Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, Jacques Derrida, Edmundo Desnoes, Umberto Eco, Michel Foucault, Julia Kristeva, Jacques Lacan, Thomas A.

Indigenous sign-systems, such as pictographs, petroglyphs, hieroglyphs, and khipu, are usually understood as relics from an inaccessible past. That is far from

Stressing that the literary works are written by human authors, about human subjects, and for human readers, Schwarz argues that reading must be understood as a