Author Listings (Semiotics & Theory)
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| Thomas Keymer is Chancellor Jackman Professor of English at the University of Toronto and General Editor of The Review of English Studies. He also holds honorary appointments as a Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne's College, University of Oxford, and as Visiting Professor in the School of Arts, Languages, and Literatures....[more] |
| Kirk Nesset is author of two books of fiction, Mr. Agreeable and Paradise Road, as well as The Stories of Raymond Carver (nonfiction), Saint X (poems, forthcoming) and Alphabet of the World: Selected Works by Eugenio Montejo (translations, also forthcoming). He was awarded the Drue Heinz literature prize in 2007 and h....[more] |
| Stanton Wortham is the Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education. He also has appointments in Anthropology, Communications and Folklore. He earned his B.A., with highest honors, from Swarthmore College and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, in Human Deve....[more] |
| Best known for his contributions to the field of philosophy but also a music composer and critic, Theodor Adorno proved popular culture was a phenomenon worth analyzing. This German-born author, who lived from September 11, 1903 to August 6, 1969, was a member of the Frankfurt School, along with such other luminaries s....[more] |
| Louis Aragon (October 3, 1897 – December 24, 1982) was a French poet, novelist, editor, and essayist. Along with the French writers Andre Breton and Philippe Soupault,
Aragon was a founder of the surrealist movement. He was also a member of the Communist Party and The Société littéraire des Goncourt (English transl....[more] |
| Born in France in 1915, Roland Barthes would go on to become one of the most revered critics of his generation. Growing up in a single parent home, Barthes learned a work ethic that would serve him well for the rest of his life. He attended the Sorbonne where he received degrees in classical literature and grammar and ....[more] |
| Arnold Bennett (1867-1931) was an English novelist, journalist, and dramatist known for his depiction of English life and society in the “Five Towns” series of novels that was based on his birthplace, the Potteries district of Staffordshire, England.
Bennett was born in Burslem, one of the centers of the Staffordshi....[more] |
| William Blake (November 28,1757- August 12, 1827) Blake was an was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was the third of seven children. Blake's father, James, was a hosier. William never attended school, and was educated at home by his mother Catherine Wright Armitage Blake. The Bible was an early and profoun....[more] |
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