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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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.