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The message in the bottle : how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other Cover Image Book Book

The message in the bottle : how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other / Walker Percy.

Percy, Walker, 1916-1990 (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0374208565
  • ISBN: 9780374208561
  • ISBN: 0374513384 (PBK)
  • ISBN: 9780374513382 (PBK)
  • Physical Description: x, 335 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, c1975.

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General Note:
"Published simultaneously in Canada by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-335).
Formatted Contents Note:
The Delta factor -- The loss of the creature -- Metaphor as mistake -- The man on the train -- Notes for a novel about the end of the world -- The message in the bottle -- The mystery of language -- Toward a triadic theory of meaning -- The symbolic structure of interpersonal process -- Culture: the antinomy of the scientific method -- Semiotic and a theory of knowledge -- Symbol, consciousness, and intersubjectivity -- Symbol as hermeneutic in existentialism -- Symbol as need -- A theory of language.
Summary, etc.:
Collects the award-winning novelist's essays on language, consciousness, and knowing, unified by a central concern with the relationships between symbol and meaning in thought, imagination, and communication.

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24514. ‡aThe message in the bottle : ‡bhow queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other / ‡cWalker Percy.
260 . ‡aNew York : ‡bFarrar, Straus and Giroux, ‡cc1975.
300 . ‡ax, 335 p. : ‡bill. ; ‡c21 cm.
500 . ‡a"Published simultaneously in Canada by McGraw-Hill Ryerson Ltd., Toronto"--T.p. verso.
504 . ‡aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [331]-335).
5050 . ‡aThe Delta factor -- The loss of the creature -- Metaphor as mistake -- The man on the train -- Notes for a novel about the end of the world -- The message in the bottle -- The mystery of language -- Toward a triadic theory of meaning -- The symbolic structure of interpersonal process -- Culture: the antinomy of the scientific method -- Semiotic and a theory of knowledge -- Symbol, consciousness, and intersubjectivity -- Symbol as hermeneutic in existentialism -- Symbol as need -- A theory of language.
520 . ‡aCollects the award-winning novelist's essays on language, consciousness, and knowing, unified by a central concern with the relationships between symbol and meaning in thought, imagination, and communication.
650 0. ‡aLanguage and culture.
650 2. ‡aCommunication.
650 2. ‡aLinguistics.
650 2. ‡aSemantics.
650 0. ‡aEssays.
901 . ‡a1230725 ‡bOCoLC ‡c46955961 ‡tbiblio

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