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Understanding Representation (Paperback)
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Understanding Representation (Paperback)
Series: Understanding Contemporary Culture series
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"This is an extraordinarily lucid book. I am not sure that there is
anyone who can do this sort of thing better than Jen Webb. It is a
gift to students; extremely accessible yet complex and
sophisticated in its treatment of theories and concepts of
representation." - Jim McGuigan, Loughborough University
Understanding Representation offers a contemporary, coherent and
genuinely interdisciplinary introduction to the concept of
representation. Drawing together the full range of ideas,
practices, techniques and disciplines associated with the subject,
this book locates them in a historical context, presents them in a
readable fashion, and shows their relevance to everyday life in an
engaging and accessible manner. Readers will be shown how to
develop a sophisticated attitude to meaning, and understand the
relationship to truth and identity that is brought into focus by
communicative practices. With chapters on linguistic and political
representation, art and media, and philosophical and cognitive
approaches, this book: Guides readers through complex theoretical
terrain with a highly readable and refreshing writing style.
Explains the techniques and perspectives offered by semiotics,
discourse analysis, poetics, politics, narratology, visual culture,
cognitive theory, performance theory and theories of embodied
subjectivity. Covers the new ideas and practices that have emerged
since the work of Barthes, Eco and Foucault - especially
communication and meaning-making in the digital environment, and
the new paradigms of understanding associated with cognitive
theories of identity and language. Teaches readers how to interpret
and interrogate the world of signs in which they live.
Understanding Representation provides students across the social
sciences and humanities with an invaluable introduction to what is
meant by 'representation'.
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