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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,
Understanding Representation:
- 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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