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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 / Walker Percy.
Record details
- 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.
Content descriptions
| 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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| Subject: | Language and culture. Communication. Linguistics. Semantics. Essays. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at GRPL.
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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
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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
In "Message" i"n the" "Bottle," Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.
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