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Book 2013.0

Tuning the Self

Eelco van Es

Edition
1 edition

Literature Peter Lang Publishing 9783034313780 Available

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Other title information: George Herbert’s Poetry as Cognitive Behaviour

Annotation: This book provides a cognitive analysis of the poetry of George Herbert (1593- 1633). From Herbert’s own thinking, recorded in his prose treatises, can be deduced that his poems should serve a specific function: teaching self-knowledge to his readers. Self-knowledge is a necessary skill, to be applied in one’s strife for ‘temperance’: the regulation of body, house, church, mind, and community. To Herbert, the meaning of his poems is subservient to this function: poetry should aid his readers to temper their lives. The cognitive framework applied here can serve to explain this function. Following Merlin Donald’s theory of cognitive evolution, art serves the purpose of mimetic meta-cognition: a specific cognitive strategy at the disposal of a county priest. Moreover, a cognitive framework can serve to explain why the Herbert-tradition has paid so little attention to this artistic function; this tradition operates within specific confines, the same confines that Herbert sought to compensate with his poetry and his thinking.

Identifier: 9783034313780

Status: Available

Proceedings Paper 1997

The iconic sign: From narrative prose to performance (Machado de Assis’ The Psychiatrist)

Monica Rector

In: Synthesis in Diversity, Volume 1

Pages
659-662

Semiotics Around the World

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Book 1996.0

Semiotics and the modern Quebec novel

Paul Perron

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a Greimassian analysis of Thériault's Agaguk

Literature University of Toronto Press 0802009263 Available

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Annotation: The most popular novel in Quebec since the Second World War, Yves Theriault's Agaguk was published just before the Quiet Revolution, a period of major political and cultural transformation that radically altered Quebec society at the beginning of the 1960s. In this original socio-semiotic reading of the novel in translation, inspired by A.J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics, Paul Perron examines the Inuit setting and characters of Agaguk as metaphors for Quebec society. Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel is one of the few semiotic analyses to deal with an entire novel, and illustrates the heuristic value of this complex methodology with respect to long prose texts in English.

Identifier: 0802009263

Status: Available

Journal Article 1995

Changing individuals in narrative: science, philosophy, literature

URI MARGOLIN

In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.5

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.5

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Journal Article 1995

Fence sitters: Parents’ reactions to sexual ambiguities in their newborn children

MEIRA WEISS

In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.33

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.33

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Journal Article 1995

Michel Colin and the psychological reality of film semiology

WARREN BUCKLAND

In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.51

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.51

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Journal Article 1995

Review article

In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.81

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.81

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Journal Article 1995

Sonstiges

In: Semiotica 1995, Issue 2024-01-02 00:00:00

Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.u

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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1995.107.1-2.u

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Book 1990.0

The Fashion System

Roland Barthes

Social University of California Press 0520071778 Available

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Notes: Originally published as Systeme de la mode (1983)

Annotation: In his consideration of the language of the fashion magazine—the structural analysis of descriptions of women's clothing by writers about fashion—Barthes gives us a brief history of semiology. At the same time, he identifies economics as the underlying reason for the luxuriant prose of the fashion magazine: "Calculating, industrial society is obliged to form consumers who don't calculate; if clothing's producers and consumers had the same consciousness, clothing would be bought (and produced) only at the very slow rate of its dilapidation."

Identifier: 0520071778

Status: Available