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Re-Covered Rose: A case study in book cover design as intersemiotic translation

Marco Sonzogni

When a reader picks up a book, the essence of the text has been translated into the visual space of the cover. Using Umberto Eco’s bestseller The Name of the Rose as a case study, this is the first study of book cover design as a form of intersemiotic translation based on the purposeful selection… read more
[Not in series, 169] 2011. viii, 181 pp., incl. ills.
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Signergy

Edited by C. Jac Conradie, Ronél Johl, Marthinus Beukes, Olga Fischer and Christina Ljungberg

The title of this volume strives to capture the dynamic scope and range of the essays it contains, applying insights into the workings of iconicity to texts as far removed from each other in time as the Medieval tale of a bishop-fish and the war-poems of 20th century Italian Futurist F.T.… read more
[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 9] 2010. x, 420 pp.
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