| Description |
viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
How to avoid defining a concept -- The semiotic rectangle -- Proper names and common nouns -- On the structure of meaning -- Are meanings atomic? -- The status of the referent -- Does literature refer? -- Amputating the referent -- Two philosophical fallacies -- Mere recognition -- The language of science -- Ravens, postage stamps, and the grand old duke of York -- Scientific discovery -- Rĕcreation and rēcreation -- Apparency, and some varieties on oddness -- On metaphor -- Taxonomy and feeling -- Three or four languages -- Linguistics and subjectivity -- Literary critics and objectivity -- Real-ativity or, the use of poetry -- Speculative appendix: the dangers of literary self-knowledge |
| Analysis |
Literature Philosophy |
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Semiotics and literature |
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Style, Literary |
| Notes |
Includes indexes |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 333-344 |
| Subject |
Literature -- Philosophy.
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Poetry.
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Semiotics and literature.
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Semiotics.
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Literary style.
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| LC no. |
75328967 |
| ISBN |
0852242689 |
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