The World is a Text (4th Edition)

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UPC:
9780205834464
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2/11/2011
Author:
Jonathan Silverman;Dean Rader
Language:
english
Edition:
4
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Product Overview

This full-color popular culture reader helps studentssee the world as a text and equips them with the analytical and composingtools to become strong academic writers.

This full-color, richly illustratedcultural 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, music, ethnicity, television, media,public space, and more. Just as important, the book teaches students the usefulness ofactively reading their surroundings.