The World is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture - Brossura

Silverman, Jonathan; Rader, Dean

 
9780136033455: The World is a Text: Writing, Reading, and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture

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The book teaches readers the usefulness of learning to actively "read" their surroundings. The new edition features a greatly expanded section on writing, editing, and making arguments.  This cultural studies reader directly engages the process of reading and writing about the “texts” one sees in everyday life. Using the lenses of rhetoric, semiotics and cultural studies, students are encouraged to become effective academic writers while gaining deeper insights into such popular culture categories as movies, technology, race, ethnicity, television, media, relationships, public space, and more.  For anyone who enjoys provocative and engaging material, and is interested in developing an appreciation for diverse cultural literary works.

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A cultural studies reader that directly engages the process of reading and writing about the "texts" one sees in public life.

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Book by Silverman Jonathan Rader Dean

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9780205661855: World Is a Text: Writing, Reading and Thinking About Visual and Popular Culture + Literature: a Prentice Hall Pocket Reader

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0205661858 ISBN 13:  9780205661855
Casa editrice: Longman Pub Group, 2008
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