Displaying 1 of 1 1975 Format: Book Author: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990. Title: The message in the bottle : how queer man is, how queer language is, and what one has to do with the other / Walker Percy. Publisher, Date: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1975. Description: x, 335 pages ; 22 cm Summary: Collects the award-winning novelist's essays on language, consciousness, and knowing, unified by a central concern with the relationships between symbol and meaning in thought, imagination, and communication. Subjects: Language and culture. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-335). Contents: 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. LCCN: 75005846 ISBN: 0374208565 9780374208561 9780374513382 0374513384 (pbk. : cover) Other Number: 1230725 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 90847 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 401 Percy Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1