Cultural Semiosis: Tracing the Signifier

by Hugh J. Silverman

Book Overview

Cultural Semiosis traces the theoretical itinerary of the signifier in the continental tradition. Cultural semiosis provides links for cultural studies to the philosophical, the literary, the historical and the social. Understood semiotically, cultural signs and signifiers are inscribed in the fabric of cultural practices. Cultural semiosis enters the spaces of everyday language, visuality, sexuality and symbolization. These original essays interpret...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415919541
• ISBN13: 9780415919548
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"