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Structuralism and Semiotics (New Accents)

Authors:Terence Hawkes (Series Ed), Terence Hawkes,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: accents, new, semiotics, structuralism
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-11-14
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0415321530
ISBN-13: 9780415321532

Published in 1977 as the first volume in the New Accents series, Structuralism and Semiotics made crucial debates in critical theory accessible to those with no prior knowledge of the field. Since then a generation of readers has used the book as an entry not only into structuralism and semiotics, but into the wide range of cultural and critical theories underpinned by these approaches.It remains the clearest introduction to some of the most important topics in modern critical theory. A new afterword and fresh suggestions for further reading complete this new edition.

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Hawkes Harbor

Author: S. E. Hinton
Publisher: Tor Books
Keywords: harbor, hawkes
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2005-10-04
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0765344726
ISBN-13: 9780765344724

An orphan and a bastard, Jamie Sommers grew up knowing he had no hope of heaven. Conceived in adultery and born in sin, Jamie was destined to repeat the sins of his parents--or so the nuns told him. And he proved them right. Taking to sea, Jamie sought out danger and adventure in exotic ports all over the world as a smuggler, gunrunner--and murderer. Tough enough to handle anything, he’s survived foreign prisons, pirates, and a shark attack. But in a quiet seaside town in Delaware, Jamie discovered something that was enough to drive him insane-and change his life forever. For it was in H

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Travesty

Author: John Hawkes
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Keywords: travesty
Number of Pages: 132
Published: 1976-12-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811206408
ISBN-13: 9780811206402

Hawkes, Travesty. John Hawkes’ most extreme vision of eroticism and comic terror.

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Second Skin

Author: John Hawkes
Publisher: New Directions
Keywords: skin, second
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2005-11-28
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0811216446
ISBN-13: 9780811216449

Skipper, an ex-World War II naval Lieutenant and the narrator of Second Skin, interweaves past and present—what he refers to as his "naked history"—in a series of episodes that tell the story of a volatile life marked by pitiful losses, as well as a more elusive, overwhelming, joy. The past: the suicides of his father, wife and daughter, the murder of his son-in-law, a brutal rape, and subsequent mutiny at sea. The present: caring for his granddaughter on a "northern" island where he works as an artificial inseminator of cows, and attempts to reclaim the innocence with which he faced the t