Texts : Contemporary Cultural Texts and Critical Approaches

"Texts" takes a wide range of visual, virtual, performative and written texts as a means of exploring both 'the literary' and 'the textual' in contemporary culture.

It will be essential reading for anyone who ever wanted to know how to analyse a text, whether it be a poster or a building complex, a political speech or a photograph, an event like the Millennium or a website like Amazon.

An excellent guide to ways of reading the contemporary world, "Texts" examines a broad spectrum of contemporary culture from short stories, autobiographies and lyrics, through "The Matrix", "Harry Potter", and "Big Brother", to shopping malls, celebrities, and rock videos.