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'.
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'Twenty years ago, if you wanted to know where literary theory was at, I'd say semiotics, and Culler's Pursuit of Signs was the best way to see the links. Today? Same answer. Overview, criticism, problems and solutions: Culler offers them all in each chapter, on key topics and questions of the humanities. The book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then. Except that, with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis.'
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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.
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- Anatomy of Criticism: Four Essays by Northrop Frye on 5 pages
- Semiotics of Poetry (Advances in Semiotics) by Michael Riffaterre on 5 pages
- On Deconstruction by Jonathan D. Culler on 5 pages
- A Theory of Semiotics (Advances in Semiotics) by Umberto Eco in Front Matter, page 38, and Back Matter
- William Blake (Bloom's BioCritiques) by Harold Bloom in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- Critical Vices: The Myths of Postmodern Theory (Critical Voices in Art, Theory and Culture) by Nicholas Zurbrugg on 9 pages
- George Eliot and Schiller: Intertextuality and Cross-Cultural Discourse (Warwick Studies in the Humanities) by Deborah Guth on 5 pages
- New Definitions of Lyric: Theory, Technology, and Culture (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Mark Jeffreys on 4 pages
- The Cultural Politics of the New Criticism by Mark Jancovich in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Practicing Theory and Reading Literature: An Introduction (Literary Theory) by Raman Selden on page 115, page 116, and Back Matter
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