Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers

Name: Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers
Author: Sonia Maasik
ISBN: 9780312647001

Author Sonia Maasik

Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's

Category Language Arts & Disciplines

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Author(s) Sonia Maasik

Publisher Bedford/St. Martin's

ISBN / ASIN 031264700X

ISBN-13 9780312647001

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Sales Rank #348,214

Category Language Arts & Disciplines

Marketplace United States

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Signs of Life in the USA teaches students to read and write critically about popular culture by giving them a conceptual framework to do it: semiotics, a field of critical theory developed specifically for the interpretation of culture and its signs. Written by a prominent semiotician and an experienced writing instructor, the text’s high-interest themes feature provocative and current reading selections that ask students to think analytically about America’s impressive popular culture: How is TV’s Mad Men a

lightning rod for America’s polarized political climate? Has the nature of personal identity changed in an era when we spend so much of our lives online? Signs of Life bridges the transition to college writing by providing students with academic language to talk about our common, everyday cultural experience. Read the preface.

Order Multimodal Readings for Signs of Life in the USA packaged with Signs of Life in the USA, Seventh Edition using ISBN-13: 978-1-4576-1989-2.