The World Is a Text: Writing about Visual and Popular Culture: Updated Compact Edition

by Dean Rader and Jonathan Silverman

Book Overview

Wherever we look today, popular culture greets us with texts that make implicit arguments; this book helps students to think and write critically about these texts. The World Is a Textteaches critical reading, writing, and argument in the context of pop-culture and visual examples, showing students how to read everyday objects and visual texts with basic semiotics. The book shows how texts of all kinds, from a painting to a university building to...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1554813794
• ISBN13: 9781554813797
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Broadview Press Inc
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.9" x 9.0"