Crispin Mayfair: 2 books

Book cover of Depictions of Childhood in Dickens’s Great Expectations and the Poetry of Wordsworth
by Crispin Mayfair
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016

How is childhood represented in Charles Dickens’s classic novel Great Expectations? In this 3,000-word essay, images of early life in the poetry of William Wordsworth is compared and contrasted with Pip’s journey. About the Author: Crispin Mayfair is a semiotician by training and an author by trade.
Book cover of Death of the Author: A Brief Semiotic Examination of the End of Authorship
by Crispin Mayfair
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2016

Who is the final authority on the meaning of a literary text? Does the reader’s interpretation hold more value than the writer’s intent? This 1,500-word essay exploring Roland Barthes’s paper “The Death of the Author” takes a semiotic approach to literary interpretation and touches...
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