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Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.106.3-4.u
Contexts of Pre-Novel Narrative
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Other title information: The European Tradition
Annotation: While being concerned with the theory and forms of early narrative, the present collection of essays presents a history of narrative rather than poetics of narrative. Rather than offering to write a coherent narrative about the historical development of narrative before " the rise of the novel", the volume presents stages in the development towards that elusive and unstable form of narrative, giving the reader what in another context has been referred to as an "exemplary history" (Reed 1981) of narrative.
Identifier: 3110138832
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Cultural Artifacts and the production of meaning
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- The Page, the Image, and the Body
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Annotation: Diverse essays addressing a variety of subjects, from Renaissance cartography to performance art to rap music, united in their common exploration of material criticism. This recognizes that materialist criticism may embrace techniques borrowed from psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxian, and historicist criticisms. It employs materialist criticism to broaden and strengthen our understanding of what constitutes a 'cultural artifact' and how such artifacts function.
Identifier: 0472082574
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Origins of Semiosis
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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
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Roland Barthes by Roland Barthes
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Annotation: Roland Barthes was one of France's leading literary critics and cultural commentators who died in 1980. This work is a kind of autobiography, both personal and theoretical, giving an account of his tastes, his childhood, his education, his passions and regrets which have gone into his work.
Identifier: 0520087836
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Signs of Life in the USA
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- Readings On Popular Culture For Writers
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Annotation: The transformation from a text-centred to an image-centred culture presents a certain challenge to writing teachers. How can such a textually based enterprise as writing instruction respond to a video-driven world? How are reading and writing related to seeing and hearing? Can the habits of critical thinking that are so central to the analytical tasks of academic writing be adapted to McLuhan's Brave New World? We have written Signs of Life in the U.S.A. because we believe not only that such bridges can be built but that building them represents our best hope for training a new generation of students in critical thinking and writing. Thus, while the goal of our text remains the traditional one of helping students become strong writers of argument and analysis, our method departs from convention by using printed texts to guide students in the analysis and interpretation of an unwritten world: The world of American popular culture, wherein images, often electronically conveyed, can be more important than words.
Identifier: 031209020X
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The Language of Vision
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Other title information: Meditations on Myth and Metaphor
Annotation: Jamake Highwater,the best-selling author of Myth and Sexuality and the Primal Mind, continues his voyage into the realms of myth, art and contemporary culture exploring the way society views its art and artists and the way our art and artists gaze back at us. Organized around the twenty-two cards of the Tarot Major Arcana, this book presents a dazzling range of controversial subjects, including the puritan division of art into hight and low and the direct influence of "popular" forms in contemporary artists, the image of the homosexual as outlow, iconography as destiny, imagination as political powe, the reinvetion of the past and thriumph of the dream life.
Identifier: 0802133460
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The Making of Avant-Garde
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Other title information: Tel Quel
Annotation: The present work will examine the constitution of Tel Quel's multipositionality (Boltanski 1973: 3-26), or funtion as a geometric locus, as the social creation of a symbolic good that combined all signs of intellectual radicality characteristic of the period. My aim is to analyze Tel Quel as a relatively heterogenous and changing object by exploring in a specific context its constitution, ascension, and decline as an intellectual avant-garde.
Identifier: 3110139529
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The Socialness of Things
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Other title information: Essays on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects
Notes: This book is based on the proceedings of an international conference which took place at the University of Toronto in 1990.
Annotation: The term "socialness" is a neologism that is used in this volume to call attention to the integration of objects in the social fabric of everyday life. Specialists in material culture studies have understood for some time, that societies consist of both people and artifacts. It is not only with people and animals that we interact but also with objects. The chapters in the first part of the volume deal with artefacts such as furniture, mementoes, and knickknacks, which can be manipulated as social "others" – entities with which one can socialize or make a part in socialisation processes such as establishing a bond, conveying a message, etc. The second section of articles concerns artefacts whose dimensions take such proportions that humans become dwarfed with respect to them, such as tourists travelling to visit them or shoppers being herded through their artificial geography as if flowing within an oversized organism. In the concluding section, the artefacts examined are by contrast so adjusted to the proportion of the human body, so close to it that they become an indissociable part of the social persona sticking to the skin, expressing better than any other means of the socialness - fashion.
Identifier: 3110141337
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The Swastika
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- Constructing the Symbol
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Annotation: By identifying the swastika as a bounary or liminal image, Malcolm Quinn allies visual analysis to issues of material culture and history.
Identifier: 041510095X
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Abstract deixis
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.5
Argumentation theory and the distance to the data
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.287
Commemorative essay. Stefan Żółkiewski: 9 December 1911 – 4 January 1991
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.201
Contents/Sommaire Volume 95 (1993)
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.403
Driving sign exchange and social change: The cultural utility of transport as mirror of social relations in a Nigerian university community
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.63
Entrapped by words: Semiotic studies of Thomas Hardy’s novels
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.261
Landscape
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Other title information: Politics and Perspectives
Annotation: The term 'landscape' was coined in an emergent capitalist world to evoke a particular set of elite experiences - a particular 'way of seeing'. But other people also have landscapes. The authors of this book are Geographers, Anthropologists and Archaeologists, and they explore landscape as something subjective, something experienced, something that alters through time and space, that is created by, and creative of, historical conditions and geographical emplacement. The articles range in time from 6000 BC to the present, and in space from Alaska and Melanesia to Belfast and Berlin. They show how the cultural and political analysis of landscape cuts across many disciplinary boundaries and how perceptions of the land and its history are created, negotiated and contested
Identifier: 0854963731
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Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 1
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.241
Literature, strategies and metalanguage, part 4: Context, cotext, and metatext
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.75
On the legitimation of metapragmatics: A case study in the epistemology of linguistics
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.45
On the semiosis of corporate culture
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.1-2.5
Pioneers and plain folks: Cultural constructions of ‘place’ in radio news
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.269
Review article
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.101
Review article
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.325
Review article
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.303
Sémiologie de l’acte ‘manger’: Source et objet de figures
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.207
Semiotics of work and idleness
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.1-2.21
Some gestures commonly used in Nanjing, PRC
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.235
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.u
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.93.3-4.u
Structuring the domain of human nonverbal behavior: A biological, Popperian perspective from the field of human movement studies
In: Semiotica 1993, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1993.95.3-4.205
The golden bough
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- A study in magic and religion
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Annotation: A classic study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, and the progress through magic and religion to scientific thought, The Golden Bough has a unique status in modern anthropology and literature.
Identifier: 1853263109
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A case of intersemiotics: The reception of a visual advertisement
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.79
Age, body type, and style features as cues in nonverbal communication
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.43
Clothing as signifier in the perceptions of college male homosexuals
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.67
Credit cards and social identity
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.99
Fashion and the signification of social order
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.1
Meaning and Geography
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Other title information: The Social Conception of the Region in Northern Greece
Annotation: This book has evolved as a continuous interplay between theoratical analysis and the elaboration of empirical data. One of the aims was the presentation and systematization of these data, and from this point of view the book may be considered as a research monograph. This book also has a goal to resaon from the specific to the general, from the case study to a theoretical conception of the semiotics of macro-environments.
Identifier: 3110129566
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Name, Hero, Icon
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Other title information: Semiotics of Nationalism through Heroic Biography
Annotation: The main focus of this project, when it was undertaken in 1987, was on name as sign and hero as icon. Since the completion of the work in 1988, dramatic changes have occurred in the world, particularly in Eastern Europe. Through them, one may observe the unpredictable power of signs and symbols and their profound impact on the collective psyche. Masses of people are involved in the destruction of the old icons and the formation of new ones. Here our semiotic lenses are focused on the role of symbolic, on the power of the name-sign, and on the display of its semiotic constant.
Identifier: 3110130122
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On the principle of disorder in civilization: A socio-physical analysis of fashion change
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.57
Proper names in the symbolic economy of fashion
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.31
Reconstructing Languages and Cultures
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Other title information: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Annotation: Abstracts and materials from the first international interdisciplinary symposium on language and prehistory Ann Arbor, 8-12 November, 1988
Identifier: 3883397083
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Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.109
Review article
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.90.3-4.201
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.u
Sonstiges
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-03-04 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.90.3-4.u
The fabrication of the sign: On Carlyle’s Sartor Resartus
In: Semiotica 1992, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1992.91.1-2.15
The Other Heading
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Other title information: Reflections on Today's Europe
Annotation: Prompted by the unification of Europe in 1992 and by recent events in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Jacques Derrida begins this compelling essay on contemporary world politics with the issue of European identity. What, he asks, is Europe? How has Europe traditionally been defined and how is the current world situation changing that definition? Might the prospects of a New Europe demand not only a new definition of European identity but also a new way of thinking identity itself?
Identifier: 0253316936
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American Literature & the Arts
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Annotation: The picture of America and its arts emerging from these pages is an artful composite, no less truthful for its fragmentation and open-endedness, challenging the reader all the more to complete it.
Identifier: 9070289830
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Charlie Chaplin
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Other title information: His reflections in modern times
Annotation: The book includes detailed studies of Charlie Chaplin's life and work, written by authors from various humanities fields
Identifier: 3110126001
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