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The World Is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts by Jonathan Silverman — book cover

The World Is a Text: The Writing, Reading, and Thinking about Culture and Its Contexts

by Jonathan Silverman, Dean Rader
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Overview

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 writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works–such as short stories, and poems–and other less-traditional ones–such as movies, the Internet, race, ethnicity, and television.

For anyone who enjoys provocative and engaging material, and is interested in developing an appreciation for diverse cultural literary works.

Synopsis

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 writing about the "texts" one sees in everyday life. Its comprehensive and inclusive approach focuses on the relationship between reading traditional works–such as short stories, and poems–and other less-traditional ones–such as movies, the Internet, race, ethnicity, and television.

For anyone who enjoys provocative and engaging material, and is interested in developing an appreciation for diverse cultural literary works.

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Book Details

Published
July 1, 2005
Publisher
Prentice Hall
Pages
864
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780131931985

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