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This book treats eighteenth-century Italian philosopher Giambattista Vicos theory of poetic logic for the first time as the originating force in ma...

This is the first book to examine murder through the written word--not only the writings of the killers themselves, but also the story of murder as...

In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed ...

In an age where fake news, conspiracy theories, and outright lies by political and cultural leaders are commonplace, we may be becoming accustomed ...

The first comprehensive encyclopedia for the growing fields of media and communication studies, the Encyclopedia of Media and Communication is an e...

Dating back to antiquity, semiotics is both a technique and a science that aims to understand the nature of meaning. An academic discipline in its ...

Scientific evidence for the origin of speech is abundant, but evidence for the origin of language as separate from speech as a naming system remain...

Pandemics and other catastrophic events have been the stimulus not only for inventions and discoveries in science, but also in literary modes of un...

An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a puzzling organ which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence t...

Part history book, part puzzle book, The Curious History of the Riddle is fully illustrated with over 250 riddles interspersed throughout the text ...

This book is the first comprehensive treatment of conceptual fluency theory, or the view that the basis of successful foreign language learning inh...