Semiotics & Theory
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Metronome
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
When the metronome was invented in 1815, it transformed the music world. Composers and musici- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Birkhold, Matthew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765108871
- Language: English
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Ballot
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Ballot examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an incre- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Enjeti, Anjali
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 05 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765126196
- Language: English
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Lipstick
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
From Revlon to Glossier, from Marilyn to Gaga, lipstick is as shape-shifting and unwieldy as- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: G’Sell, Eileen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765135587
- Language: English
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Practical Criticism: A Study of Literary Judgment
$18.99 Add to cartA landmark of twentieth-century criticism that provided new standards and new techniques for examining literature. “Richards is a master of the psychology of criticism” (Saturday Review). Index.
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- Author: Richards, Ivor a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0156736268
- Language: English
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Reasons and Feelings: Writing for the Humanities Now
$22.50 Add to cartThis book of practical writing and publishing advice celebrates the creative, community-building pleasures of humanist expertise.
Humanities experts today are embattled. In a world of crises undermin- Series: Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
- Author: Mesle, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0226843629
- Language: English
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Six Walks in the Fictional Woods
$22.95 Add to cart“Erudite, wide-ranging, and slyly humorous.”
One of the great novelists and public intellectuals of our time gives a master class on the philosophy of fiction. Umberto Eco was fond of p
—The Atlantic- Series: Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
- Author: Eco, Umberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 067430246X
- Language: English
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Videotape
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Over the span of a single decade, VHS technology changed the relationship between privacy and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Godeanu-Kenworthy, Oana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765100004
- Language: English
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Far Calls: On Omens, Slips, & Epiphanies
$37.00 Add to cartAn inquiry into the theories and practices of overhearing
When words are not heard but overheard, when phrases are perceived in bits and pieces, and when speakers, failing to do as they intend, state- Author: Heller-Roazen, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1945861045
- Language: English
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Cat
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Rebecca van Laer and her partner purchase a home and move in with their senior cats, Toby and- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Laer, Rebecca Van
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 02 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765114629
- Language: English
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Taco
$14.95 Add to cartObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Taco is a deep dive into the most iconic Mexican food from the perspective of a Mexico City n- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Prado, Ignacio M. Sánchez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 16 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765135624
- Language: English
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Impasse: Climate Change and the Limits of Progress
$30.00 Add to cartA Next Big Idea Club “Must Read” for August 2025!
We need a new realism in the face of global climate catastrophe.
Extreme heat, fires, floods, and storms are transforming our planet. Yet instead of s
- Author: Scranton, Roy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: August 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640035
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan
$29.99 Add to cartThe difficulty of Jacques Lacan’s thought is notorious. The Cambridge Introduction to Jacques Lacan cuts through this difficulty to provide a clear, jargon-free approach to understanding it. The book … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Introductions to Literature (Hardcover)
- Author: McGowan, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 100930075X
- Language: English
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Words with Power: Being a Second Study the Bible and Literature
$19.00 Add to cartIn Words With Power, literary critic and theorist Northrop Frye continues his exploration, begun in The Great Code, of the influence of Biblical themes and forms of expression on Western literature, w
- Author: Frye, Northrop
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 0156983656
- Language: English
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A Truth Universally Acknowledged: 33 Great Writers on Why We Read Jane Austen
$21.00 Add to cartWhy are we so fascinated with Jane Austen’s novels? Why is Austen so universally beloved? The essayists in this volume offer their thoughts on the delightful puzzle of Austen’s popularity. Classic and… [more below]
- Author: Carson, Susannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0812980018
- Language: English
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Sylvia Wynter: On Being Human as PRAXIS
$43.43 Add to cartThe Jamaican writer and cultural theorist Sylvia Wynter is best known for her diverse writings that pull together insights from theories in history, literature, science, and black studies, to explore … [more below]
- Author: McKittrick, Katherine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0822358344
- Language: English
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Giving an Account of Oneself: Twentieth Anniversary Edition, with a New Preface by the Author
$29.95 Add to cartWhat does it mean to lead a moral life?
In their first extended study of moral philosophy, Judith Butler offers a provocative outline for a new ethical practice–one responsive to the need for critic- Author: Butler, Judith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1531509975
- Language: English
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Against Progress
$14.95 Add to cartTo define ‘progress’ is to lay claim to the future. Seminal thinker Slavoj Zizek turns essayist to interrogate the competing visions which form the horizons of human possibility and ask: Can things, w
- Series: Zizek’s Essays
- Author: Zizek, Slavoj
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: January 09 2025
- ISBN10: 135051585X
- Language: English
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Hell: In Search of a Christian Ecology
$26.95 Add to cartHell on earth is real. The toxic fusion of big oil, Evangelical Christianity, and white supremacy has ignited a worldwide inferno, more phantasmagoric than anything William Blake could dream up and mo
- Author: Morton, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0231214715
- Language: English
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The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth-Century Literary Imagination
$22.00 Add to cart“A feminist classic.”–Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review
“A pivotal book, one of those after which we will never think the same again.”–Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Washington Post Book World A p- Series: Veritas Paperbacks
- Author: Gilbert, Sandra M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 0300246722
- Language: English
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Atrocity: A Literary History
$32.00 Add to cartExploring literary representations of mass violence, Bruce Robbins traces the emergence of a cosmopolitan recognition of atrocity.
Mass violence did not always have a name. Like conquest, what we thi
- Author: Robbins, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1503640558
- Language: English
