Cultural Semiosis
Cultural Semiosis

Author: Hugh J. Silverman

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-04-23

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1317827996

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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 and provide tools for the understanding of cultural studies within a philosophical framework. Contributors: M. Alison Arnett, Debra Bergoffen, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Kelly Oliver, Adi Ophir, Francois Raffoul, Mark Roberts, Stephanie Sage, Hugh J. Silverman.

Outlawry in Medieval Literature
Outlawry in Medieval Literature

Author: T. Jones

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2010-11-22

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0230114687

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Drawing on new historical principles, this book examines literary and historical narratives, legal statutes and records, sermons, lyric poetry, and biblical exegesis circulating in medieval England in order to theorize the figure of the outlaw and uncover the legal, ethical, and social assumptions that underlie the practice of outlawry.

Liberty Against the Law
Liberty Against the Law

Author: Christopher Hill

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-01-14

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 1788736826

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A classic study of popular resistance to the momentous changes of 17th century England In 17th Century England, the law was not an instrument of justice - it was an instrument of oppression. The enclosures of common land, loss of many traditional rights and draconian punishments for minor transgressions changed the lives of the peasantry and created a landless class of wage labourers. In this, the last book published during his lifetime, renowned historian of the English Revolution Christopher Hill explores the immense social changes that occurred and the expressions of liberty against the law through the literary culture of the times and the hero-worship of the outlaw. As well as chapters on gypsies and vagabonds, Hill analyses class, religion and the shift away from the importance of the church after the Reformation. Liberty Against the Law is a late classic of Hill's work, and essential reading for anyone interested in the history and politics of the 17th Century.

The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)
The Violence of Representation (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Nancy Armstrong

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-17

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1317744357

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First published in 1989, this collection of essays brings into focus the history of a specific form of violence – that of representation. The contributors identify representations of self and other that empower a particular class, gender, nation, or race, constructing a history of the west as the history of changing modes of subjugation. The essays bring together a wide range of literary and historical work to show how writing became an increasingly important mode of domination during the modern period as ruling ideas became a form of violence in their own right. This reissue will be of particular value to literature students with an interest in the concept of violence, and the boundaries and capacity of discourse.

Contested Commonwealths
Contested Commonwealths

Author: William A. Pencak

Publisher: Lehigh University Press

Published: 2011-09-16

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1611460840

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United States historian William Pencak presents thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts - the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion. Others examine popular ideology in songs and almanacs, and the thought and behavior of George Washington, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and the loyalist Peter Oliver. Interpretive essays argue that colonial outage that their participation in the French and Indian War went unrecognized by the British led to the American Revolution; that revolutionary economic thought turned smuggling from a vice into the 'natural law' of free trade; and that focusing on the 'Civil War,' and the years 1861 to 1865, leads to a glorified conception of the national past that is better understood as shaped by 'An Era of Racial Violence' that extended from 1854 to at least 1877.

British Outlaws of Literature and History
British Outlaws of Literature and History

Author: Alexander L. Kaufman

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-01-10

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0786485124

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The medieval outlaws of Britain maintain a hold on the present-day imagination, judging by their presence in literature and on film. Exploring the nature of both historical and fictional outlaws, these twelve critical essays survey the literary, historical, and cultural environments that produced them, namely the medieval and early modern periods. Divided into three parts, the text examines the historical records of real outlawed men and women and the representation of Jews in medieval Britain as possible outlaws, outlaws associated specifically with Wales, and the popular figure of Robin Hood and the context of the late medieval poems and plays that feature him as a prominent figure.

Legal Signs Fascinate
Legal Signs Fascinate

Author: Jan M. Broekman

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2017-10-24

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 3319695207

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This engaging book examines the origins and first effects of the concept ‘legal semiotics’, focusing on the inventor of the term, Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998). It highlights the importance of her ideas and works which have contributed to legal theory, legal interpretation and philosophy of language. Kevelson’s work is particularly relevant today, in our world of global electronic communication networks which rely so much on language, signs, signals and shortcuts. Kevelson could not have foreseen the 21st century, yet the story of her work and influence deserves more attention as it is key to our understanding of modern legal discourse and why law fascinates and is accepted in modern society. The authors draw on Kevelson’s hitherto unknown Office Papers and Notes, and a biographical examination points to key influences in her work such as the early feminist movements of the US East Coast, the philosophy of Charles Sanders Peirce and the semiotics of Thomas Sebeok. This forms the basis for a more encompassing research of Kevelson’s position, work and philosophical background, which the authors call for. A quick and enlightening read, this book interests a wide range of readers with an interest in legal history and the fields which Kevelson both drew on and influenced, including lawyers, students and scholars.

The Poetics of Manhood
The Poetics of Manhood

Author: Michael Herzfeld

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2020-07-21

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 069121638X

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The description for this book, The Poetics of Manhood: Contest and Identity in a Cretan Mountain Village, will be forthcoming.

New Approaches to Semiotics and the Human Sciences
New Approaches to Semiotics and the Human Sciences

Author: Roberta Kevelson

Publisher: Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13:

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Little links the 14 essays beyond an iconoclastic attitude toward the mainstream of a branch of thinking most people have never heard of, and a leaning towards legal matters. Among the topics are constitutive theory, what judges and juries do, class conflict in white America, justice as a iconophobic icon, word play and the challenge of sense, conceptual iconicity and grammatical rules, and the cognitive self and the virtual self. Appended are a conversation with Kevelson and a list of her professional achievements. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR