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Overview"Taking an eclectic and evolutionary approach to signs, this text sees the sign as a fundamental part of human development. It offers integrative models of semiosis that utilize both American and European approaches to explore dreams, numbering signs, mythic narrative, and new signs. As signifying creatures, we fear the false creation ""signifying nothing"" because, like Macbeth, we think of them as daggers of the mind that raise questions about the reality of our signs, about signs as tools of creation and power, about the dark terrors (and lighter joys) that exist in human desire, and about the signs and the mind. This text looks at the daggers of the mind to argue that signs are in their basic structure ambivalent, joyfully perineal and eternally tricksters of the mind. They are, at base, generative things creating as much as they refer." Full Product DetailsAuthor: C. W. SpinksPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9780333526040ISBN 10: 033352604 Pages: 232 Publication Date: 08 July 1991 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsA List of Diagrams and Tables - Preface - Introduction: The Terrific Sign - PART 1: DYADIC SIGNS - The Nature of Signs and the Naturalness of Objects - Numerous Signs and Natural Objects - The Myth of Polarity: A Perennial Problem of Semiotics - PART 2: TRICHOTOMOUS SIGNS - Triadic Integration of Polarities - Peirce, Pragmatics and Pyramids - Peirce's Demon Abduction: How to Charm the Truth out of Quark - PART 3: MARGINAL SIGNS - Semiotic Approaches to Higher States of Consciousness - A Semiotic of Dreams: Pragmatic Forks in the Royal Road - Semiosis as Trickster: The Laughter of Signs - Notes - Bibliography - IndexReviewsAuthor InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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