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The message in the bottle : how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other / Walker Percy.

Percy, Walker, 1916- (Author).
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  • ISBN: 0374208565
  • Physical Description: x, 335 p. ; 22 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Bibliography: p. [331]-335.
Formatted Contents Note: The Delta factor -- The loss of the creature -- Metaphor as mistake -- The man on the train -- Notes for a novel about the end of the world -- The message in the bottle -- The mystery of language -- Toward a triadic theory of meaning -- The symbolic structure of interpersonal process -- Culture: the antinomy of the scientific method -- Semiotic and a theory of knowledge -- Symbol, consciousness, and intersubjectivity -- Symbol as hermeneutic in existentialism -- Symbol as need -- A theory of language.

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