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The Edusemiotics of Images
Inna Semetsky
Social Sense Publishers 9789462090538 Available
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Other title information: Essays on the Art-Science of Tarot
Notes: a printed version
Annotation: Semetsky’s new book offers a bracing account of Tarot semiotics in view of its deep significance for educational experience. Analyzing the symbolic language of Tarot images that express the intimations of the unconscious, she invites readers to explore novel ways of learning about the nature of ourselves and the world we are situated in. Combining thorough research with an accessible style, this groundbreaking book is essential reading for present and future generations of practitioners, academics and students across disciplines. Pia Brînzeu, Professor of English Literature and Vice-Rector of the Universityof Timis¸oara, Romania; author of Corridors of Mirrors. A sequel to the author’s Re-Symbolization of the Self: Human Development and Tarot Hermeneutic and Semiotics Education Experience, Semetsky’s new book presents the Tarot sign-system as a school of ethical living. Bringing the philosophies of Peirce, Deleuze, Dewey, Whitehead and Gebser in a dialogue with the cutting-edge science of coordination dynamics, she grounds the art of Tarot in the logic of signs acting across nature, culture and human mind. Building on Noddings’ “maternal factor”, Semetsky demonstrates how the lessons embodied in Tarot symbolism recover the feminine value of relations and contribute to Self~Other integration. Such is the message of Tarot images. The Image is the Message. Igor Klyukanov, Professor of Communication, Eastern Washington University, USA; editor, Russian Journal of Communication; author of A Communication Universe: Manifestations of Meaning, Stagings of Significance. Semetsky’s amalgamation of the techniques of visual communication with the emerging field of edusemiotics is an absolute masterpiece in transdisciplinarity. By forging diverse strands of inquiry into an overall model of how images enhance learning, Semetsky’s new book provokes us to take a fresh look at iconic information and is a required reading for everyone who is engaged with the artand science of visual semiotics at the intersection of nature and culture. Marcel Danesi, Professor of Anthropology, University of Toronto, Canada; editor-in-chief, Semiotica; author of The Quest for Meaning: A Guide to Semiotic Theory and Practice. Finally. An in-depth look at Tarot from within the field of semiotics, a perspective that had been inexplicably overlooked until now. As a language of exile from language, Tarot cards are silent words that became images. Here is a book that turns our thirst for symbols into a learning tool. The sign sings in Inna Semetsky’s work.
Identifier: 9789462090538
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Bad Attitude/s on trial
Brenda Cossman | Shannon Bell | Lise Gotell | Becki L. Ross
Culture University of Toronto Press 0802076432 Available
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Other title information: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler decision
Annotation: Bad Attitude/s pierces through the thick veil of hypocrisy surrounding the pornography debates in a lively and well-documented examination of the clashes between bodies and state power, detailing the vicissitudes of the pornography issue in a specifically national context.
Identifier: 0802076432
Status: Available
The idea of a living spirit
Paul Colilli
General Semiotics University of Toronto Press 0802041000 Available
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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
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
Signs Grow
Floyd Merrell
General Semiotics University of Toronto Press 0802007783 Available
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Other title information: Semiosis and Life Processes
Notes: 2nd book in trilogy "Signs Becoming Signs)
Annotation: Floyd Merrell's second book in his Signs Becoming Signs trilogy, correlating to his approach to Peircean 'secondness', or indexicality. In its preface, Merrell describes the purpose of this book, in relation to its predecessor, Our Perfusive, Pervasive Universe, to be that of a Faustian revelation. Amidst all that seems unknowable, a form, an episteme, a causal mapping, will be drawn!
Identifier: 0802007783
Status: Available
The Socialness of Things
edited by Stephen Harold Riggins
Social Mouton de Gruyter 3110141337 Available
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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
Status: Available
‛It’s just a dream’: The use of dream narratives by the mentally retarded
KEITH T. KERNAN; JIM L. TURNER
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.415
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.415
Comment. Semiotics and medical semiotics
KATHRYN VANCE STAIANO
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.491
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.491
Hypersemiotic and hyposemiotic communication: More ado about nothing?
RICHARD FIORDO
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.461
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.461
Publications received
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.533
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.533
Review article
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.497
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.497
Sémiotique de la divination chez les Rom Kalderas de Toronto
CHANTAL HILAIRE
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.481
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.481
The strategy of the headline
EDITH IAROVICI; RODICA AMEL
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.441
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.441
Troublesome bodies and sartorial dopes: Motherly accounts of teenage daughter dress practices
PETER CORRIGAN
In: Semiotica 1989, Issue 4
- Pages
- 393-414
Semiotica DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.393
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Identifier: DOI: 10.1515/semi.1989.77.4.393