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Annotation: Translation Translation contributes to current debate on the question of translation dealt with in an interdisciplinary perspective, with implications not only of a theoretical order but also of the didactic and the practical orders. In the context of globalization the question of translation is fundamental for education and responds to new community needs with reference to Europe and more extensively to the international world.In its most obvious sense translation concerns verbal texts and their relations among different languages. However, to remain within the sphere of verbal signs, languages consist of a plurality of different languages that also relate to each other through translation processes. Moreover, translation occurs between verbal languages and nonverbal languages and among nonverbal languages without necessarily involving verbal languages. Thus far the allusion is to translation processes within the sphere of anthroposemiosis.But translation occurs among signs and the signs implicated are those of the semiosic sphere in its totality, which are not exclusively signs of the linguistic-verbal order. Beyond anthroposemiosis, translation is a fact of life and invests the entire biosphere or biosemiosphere, as clearly evidenced by research in “biosemiotics”, for where there is life there are signs, and where there are signs or semiosic processes there is translation, indeed semiosic processes are translation processes. According to this approach reflection on translation obviously cannot be restricted to the domain of linguistics but must necessarily involve semiotics, the general science or theory of signs. In this theoretical framework essays have been included not only from major translation experts, but also from researchers working in different areas, in addition to semiotics and linguistics, also philosophy, literary criticism, cultural studies, gender studies, biology, and the medical sciences. All scholars work on problems of translation in the light of their own special competencies and interests.
Identifier: 9042009470
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‘Infernal’ subtexts in Brodsky’s poem The fifth anniversary
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 677-694
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.19
Atomistic versus holistic semiotics
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 513-527
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.10
Author, landscape and communication in Estonian haiku
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 653-676
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.18
Biological evolution — a semiotically constrained growth of complexity
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 271-282
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.16
Biorhetorics: An introduction to applied rhetoric
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 755-772
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.24
Metamorphoses
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Other title information: towards a materialist theory of becoming
Annotation: This original contribution to current debates is written for those who find changes and transformations challenging and necessary. It will be of great interest to students and scholars of philosophy, feminist theory, gender studies, sociology, social theory and cultural studies.
Identifier: 0745625762
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Readers of the book of life
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- contextualizing developmental evolutionary biology
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Annotation: The "chicken-and-egg" enigma of how genetic information and the body intermingle in "performing life" is a fascinating challenge for biology. The "Jurassic Park Fallacy" is a more traditional interpretation, stating that all the information necessary to build a body is present in DNA; the cell is but a "juke box" playing unambiguously what is in its genetic text and tuning the performance to the environment. Anton Markos suggests a complementary approach: to assume that living beings are endowed with a capacity analogous to a human reader, who is able to extract meaning from a given text, according to her or his personal experience and cultural background. Hermeneutics was developed in the humanities as a method to achieve understanding, in a given context, of texts, history, and artwork. The author takes living beings as hermeneutical interpreters of "texts" encoded in DNA." "This book should interest scholars in both biology and the humanities. To bring both kinds of reader to a common platform, the first part compares two problem-solving strategies: the "objectivist" approach common in natural sciences and hermeneutics as used in the humanities. The second part surveys aspects of the development of twentieth-century biology, also accentuating branches that never became part of today's mainstream. The third part reviews a large body of recent evidence, which can be interpreted in favor of the author's arguments."
Identifier: 0195149483
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Semiosphere: A chemistry of being
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 41-55
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.03
The Tourist as a Metaphor of the Social World
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Annotation: Exploring specific points of relevance to contemporary semiotics found in Jakobson’s work is the aim of this volume, and each of the 13 essays approaches the intersection differently.
Identifier: 085199606X
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Umwelt and semiosphere
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 1
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- 33-40
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.1.02
What is Painting?
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- Representation and Modern Art
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Annotation: Bell writes with a wide-ranging curiosity about what other painters have produced in the last two hundred years, giving fresh accounts of the most influential works and introducing many painters who may lie outside fashionable canons. What Is Painting? is a book for everyone interested in making sense of modern art and of the cultural debates it provokes.
Identifier: 0500281017
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Интертекстуальный анализ сегодня [Intertextual analysis today]
In: Sign System Studies 2002, Volume 30, Issue 2
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- 645-651
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2002.30.2.17
Ecosemiotics and the sustainability transition
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 219-236
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.13
I Quattro Elementi
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- nella Globalità dei Linguaggi
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Annotation: The vision of the world through the 4 elements (air, water, earth, fire) is revised in this book from the perspective of the Globality of Languages. The starting idea is that we humans are also made of the same matter and laws as the universe. The result of this proposal is to interpret in a unitary way through the elements, human characteristics and behaviours, especially communicative and expressive ones, from the everyday and common ones to the more extraordinary ones of artistic expressions, to the so-called "senseless" behaviours.
Identifier: 882631411X
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Live Samba
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- Analysis and Interpretation of Brazilian Pagode
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Annotation: Live Samba takes as its main topic the pagode movement, which apperead in the 1980s as a re-invention of the samba tradition. Deeply grounded in the most idiosyncratic musical patterns of samba, pagode countered the hegemony of the samba-schools and their media appeal. Pagode, too, became a major commercial success. It appeared in a transitional period, at the moment the music industry was shifting its focus towards lowe classes of the population. As a result, pagode and other local-based styles led the way to a recoinfiguration of Brazilian music. The transitional nature of this moment is reflected in the ambivalent nature of tpagode meanings. Those meanings were firmly attached to the local sphere, while at the same time open to communocation with translocal levels. In Live Samba, the author analyses pagode as a practice comprising both musical traits and symbolic associations with other spheres of Brazilian culture. The book looks at pagode songs through the frames of the samba tradition, of Brazilian society, of the commodity environment, and of musical signification, and it provides an introductory survey of samba and of the Brazilian music indurstry.
Identifier: 9519865497
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Metamorfozele lumini
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Other title information: biofotonica, stiinta a complexitatii
Annotation: This book is an attempt to create an interdisciplinary perspective to light as a physical and biological henomenon.
Identifier: 9739899765
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New science
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Other title information: Principles of the new science concerning the common nature of nations
Annotation: Barely acknowledged in his lifetime, the New Science of Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is an astonishingly perceptive and ambitious attempt to decipher the history, mythology and laws of the ancient world. Discarding the Renaissance notion of the classical as an idealised model for the modern, it argues that the key to true understanding of the past lies in accepting that the customs and emotional lives of ancient Greeks and Romans, Egyptians, Jews and Babylonians were radically different from our own. Along the way, Vico explores a huge variety of topics, ranging from physics to poetics, money to monsters, and family structures to the Flood. Marking a crucial turning-point in humanist thinking, New Science has remained deeply influential since the dawn of Romanticism, inspiring the work of Karl Marx and even influencing the framework for Joyce's Finnegan's Wake.
Identifier: 0140435697
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The pursuit of signs
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- Semiotics, literature deconstruction
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- 2 edition
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Other title information: Augmented edition with a new preface
Annotation: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature.
Identifier: 0801487935
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Towards a semiotic definition of trash
In: Sign System Studies 2001, Volume 29, Issue 1: Semiotics of nature
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- 313-324
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.2001.29.1.18
An Anthropology of The European Union
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- Building, Imagining and Experiencing the New Europe
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Annotation: Representing a new trend in European Anthropology, this book examines how people adjust to their different experiences of the new Europe. The role of culture, religion, and ideology, as well as insiders' social and professional practices, are all shown to shed light on the cultural logic sustaining the institutions and policies of the European Union
Identifier: 1859733247
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 128 (2000)
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 611-612
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.611
Kant and the platypus
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Other title information: essays on language and cognition
Notes: translated by Alastair McEwen, originally published in 1997
Annotation: This volume expplores how advances in the field of cognitive science can be incorporated into the study of literary interpretation. The last two decades have seen the establishment of cognitive studies as a valuable interdisciplinary approach in the humanities and beyond, However, what it can- or could- offer to the practice of literary interpretation is not entirely clear. In this volume fourteen papers by scholars from three continents address this issue.
Identifier: 009927695X
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Krzysztof Penderecki między sacrum a profanum : studia nad twórczością wokalno-instrumentalną
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Annotation: Obszar zainteresowan: polska muzyka wspolczesna (tworczosc Krzysztofa Pendereckiego, witolda Lutoslawskiego); topos smierci w muzyce (gatunki pasji i requiem), teatr muzyczny XX wieku (w kontesce historii i teorii teatru).
Identifier: 8387182249
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La Traduzione
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Annotation: This issue of Athanor is a collection of contributions by specialists from different disciplinary fields - semiotics, linguistics, literary criticism, philosophy, and biology - on the problems of translation. We can distinguish them on the basis of two orientations. One consists in limiting the question of translation to the realm of verbal language or, more specifically, to the relationship between historical-natural languages, or, again, to the more restricted realm of literary and poetic translation. The other, instead, aims to broaden the field of investigation to intersemiotic translation, between different non-verbal languages and even outside of human languages, to the point of including translations of a specifically biological nature that are the object of study of biosemiotics - such as for example, the three different types of translation in the nutritional system that constitute the difference between plants, animals and mushrooms - or the cyborg translation between organic and inorganic made possible by current technological development. (Translated with Google Translate)
Identifier: 8883530349
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Moving target
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Other title information: theatre translation and cultural relocation
Annotation: This is an exploration of the practice of translating for the theatre. It contains 12 essays from eastern and western Europe, Canada and the US which draw togther translation theory with contemporary practice.
Identifier: 1900650274
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Reading our world
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Other title information: a guide to practical and theoretical criticism
Annotation: Reading our World is intended to be read as a practical guide to reading and appreciating good writing. It will furnish you with the practical tools you need to deal with literary analysis, including the techniques, and the terminology for practical literary criticism, as well as the broader concepts which underpin the study of literature as an art form. It will show you how to "read your world" in a way that might just change it for you.
Identifier: 9515704618
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The body in language
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Annotation: Language is not merely verbal. Nonverbal signs and interpretations not only contribute to language, but in fact compose the structure of language itself. Horst Ruthrof delves into the nonverbal facets of language, such as olfactory, gustatory, aural, visual and tactile readings. Proposing reclamation of the body as an integral part of language, this book argues against structural linguistics and post-Saussurean theories. To support his standpoint, Ruthrof draws on the writings of Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida, and Helen Keller, and on recent research in cognitive science, cognitive linguistics, and cognitive rhetoric.
Identifier: 0304338052
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The Cognitive Semiotics of Film
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Annotation: In The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, Warren Buckland argues that the conflict between cognitive film theory and contemporary film theory is unproductive. Examining and developing the work of 'cognitive film semiotics', a neglected branch of film theory that combines the insights of congitive semiotics, he investigates Michel Colin's cognitive semantic theory of film; Francesco Casetti and Christian Metz' theories of film enunciation... etc.
Identifier: 0521780055
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The mask of maidenhood: Andersen’s ‘The Little Mermaid’
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 349-358
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.349
The Perception of the Environment
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Other title information: Essays in livelihood, dwelling and skill
Annotation: In this work Tim Ingold offers a persuasive new approach to understanding how human beings perceive their surroundings. He argues that what we are used to calling cultural variation consists, in the first place, of variations in skill. Neither innate nor acquired, skills are grown, incorporated into the human organism through practice and training in an environment. They are thus as much biological as cultural. To account for the generation of skills we have therefore to understand the dynamics of development. And this in turn calls for an ecological approach that situates practitioners in the context of an active engagement with the constituents of their surroundings. The twenty-three essays comprising this book focus in turn on the procurement of livelihood, on what it means to ‘dwell’, and on the nature of skill, weaving together approaches from social anthropology, ecological psychology, developmental biology and phenomenology in a way that has never been attempted before. The book is set to revolutionise the way we think about what is ‘biological’ and ‘cultural’ in humans, about evolution and history, and indeed about what it means for human beings – at once organisms and persons – to inhabit an environment. The Perception of the Environment will be essential reading not only for anthropologists but also for biologists, psychologists, archaeologists, geographers and philosophers.
Identifier: 0415228328
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Two notorious gentlemen: Haider and Le Pen. Comparing their political discourse — A semiological viewpoint
In: Semiotica 2000, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 499-512
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.2000.128.3-4.499
Biosemiotics and the foundation of cybersemiotics: Reconceptualizing the insights of ethology, second-order cybernetics, and Peirce’s semiotics in biosemiotics to create a non-Cartesian information science
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 169-198
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.169
Contents/Sommaire Volume 123 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 401-402
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.123.3-4.401
Contents/Sommaire Volume 124 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 397-397
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.397
Contents/Sommaire Volume 126 (1999)
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 235-235
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.126.1-4.235
Epistemic ordering and the development of space-time: Intentionality as a universal entailment
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-04 00:00:00
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- 567-598
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.127.1-4.567
Estrategias globales
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Other title information: Publicidad, marcas y semiocapitalismo
Annotation: deSignis once again places the problem of branding and advertising on the stratospheric stage within the framework of global strategies in post-industrial societies. Many authors have deeply appreciated the importance of objects and value systems that come into play in consumer society. As has been repeatedly pointed out, the commodity has a semiotic component since the exchange of goods has numerous concomitances with the exchange of messages, an idea that was present in Marx, also in Saussire and explicitly raised in the classic texts of Baudrillard and Rossi-Landi. (translated with google translate)
Identifier: 9789876011396
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Introducere in filosofia creatiei umane
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Annotation: The message of the present volume could be summed up by paraphrasing a well-known sentence by Andre Malraux: The 21st century will be creative or it won't be! Under the sign of this forecast, the author builds his plea for a philosophy of human creation, researching in an original, integrative way, the main dimensions of the creative endeavour. Who and for whom, how and with what result, when and for what purpose is it created? Here are the questions that are answered philosophically, in order to be able to shape that optimal situation of "creative communication" that the future expects from the present.
Identifier: 9733704156
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Lectures de guerre: Contribution à une sémio-histoire
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 235-254
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.3-4.235
Sur l’analyse sémiotique des textes mathématiques
In: Semiotica 1999, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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- 31-54
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1999.124.1-2.31
The problem of titles in painting
In: Sign System Studies 1999, Volume 27
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- 148-167
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Identifier: 10.12697/SSS.1999.27.08
Chance, Love, and Logic
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Other title information: Philosophical Essays
Notes: edited and introduced by Morris R. Cohen with an essay by John Deely. Reprint from the original 1923 edition by Harcourt, Brace and World, Inc. New York.
Annotation: Chance, Love, and Logic contains two books by Charles S. Peirce that are among his most important and widely influential. The first is Illustrations of the Logic of Science. The opening chapters, "The Fixation of Belief" and "How to Make Our Ideas Clear" mark the beginning of pragmatism. The second presents Peirce's innovative and influential essays on scientific metaphysics.
Identifier: 0803287518
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Contents/Sommaire Volume 118 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 321-322
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.118.3-4.321
Contents/Sommaire Volume 119 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 433-433
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.119.3-4.433
Contents/Sommaire Volume 120 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 483-484
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.120.3-4.483
Contents/Sommaire Volume 121 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 373-374
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.121.3-4.373
Contents/Sommaire Volume 122 (1998)
In: Semiotica 1998, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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- 387-388
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1998.122.3-4.387
Cultural Semiosis
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Other title information: Tracing the signifier
Annotation: This book contains works of authors: Hugh J. Silverman, Peter Carravetta, Alessandro Carrera, Francois Raffoul, Kelly Oliver, Stephanie John Sage, Mark Roberts, Debra B. Bergoffen, M. Alison Arnett, Julia Kristeva, John Llewelyn, Michael Naas, Adi Ophir
Identifier: 0415919541
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Essai sur la représentation du drame musical
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- Wieland Wagner in memoriam
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- 1 edition
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Annotation: This common-sense evidence that music and the stage are consubstantial in the Lyric Theatre, that they necessarily operate in symbiosis, this evidence also says, in a double sense, that their union is in no way obvious in itself, that it is a problem for both. The theoretical sketches that make up this essay bear witness to the singular link between event and truth, between music and representational stage, that Wieland Wagner was able to establish for the first time in the history of the Lyric Theatre.
Identifier: 2738466389
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