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Other title information: philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction

Annotation: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco, retracing his impact on literary studies, semiotics, aesthetics and philosophy.

Identifier: 0745608493

Status: Available

Other title information: poetic logic as a contemporary theory

Annotation: In this book, Paul Colilli brings a unifying perspective to the time-worn debate between rationalists and empiricists by demonstrating that ratio-logical thinking is based on, not separate from, poetico-logical thinking. Colilli sets out his theory of poetic logic through an analysis of works by a range of thinkers and writers that include Paolo Valesio, Franco Rella, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger, Carl Jung, Giambattista Vico, and Giordano Bruno.

Identifier: 0802041000

Status: Available

Other title information: A book about Semiotics

Annotation: The book is a primer of general semiotics, introducing basic models and frameworks of semiotic thinking as well as providing the reader with semiotic methodology to analyze issues of postmodernism, of text semiotics, and of mass cultural semiotics

Identifier: 156750213X

Status: Available

Notes: Translated by Barbara J. Haveland

Annotation: This book examines the radical premise that the sign, not the molecule, is the crucial, underlying factor in the study of life

Identifier: 0253332338

Status: Available

Annotation: Peirce's Semiotics Now: A Primer is written for the student of semiotics, linguistics, communication, literary and aesthetic studies and philosophy. It provides a penetrating introduction to Charles S. Peirce's concept of the sign, as distinguished from Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic theory. The author places Peircean semiotics in today's cultural setting. It thus accounts for our multicultural, intertextual, high-tech, postmodern scene, as a set of unifying ideas at the heart of which lies semiosis, the perpetual movement of signs

Identifier: 1551300826

Status: Available

Other title information: Sign Evolution in Nature and Culture

Annotation: The all-comprehensive scope set by the topic of Origins of Semiosis necessarily encompasses a great thematic diversity. The disciplinary horizon of the contributors to this volume is also highly diverse: it extends from anthropology to zoology and from linguistics to visual aesthetics. Unity in this diversity may be provided by the transdisciplinary framework of semiotics which guides the authors' explorations in the evolution of semiosis, even though the framework of this volume is by no means one of a unifying school of specific semiotic theory.

Identifier: 3110141965

Status: Available

Other title information: from word to culture

Annotation: Occupying a still evolving but clearly established place in 20th-century intellectual history, Mikhail Bakhtin is best characterized as a philosopher of dialogue or human communication. The book approaches its subject by concentrating on problems of language and literature

Identifier: 0333556321

Status: Available

Annotation: Through the writings of Ferdinand de Saussure, Roland Barthes, Jacques Lacan and others, the kindred disciplines of semiotics and structuralism have stirred enormous interest within European and American intellectual circles in recent years. With their focus on the ways in which signs, symbols, and cultural phenomena of all kinds convey meaning, these burgeoning theoretcial fields have had a special impact on the analysis of fil and literature. In this provocative book Kaja Silverman undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.

Identifier: 9780195031782

Status: Available