The Message in the Bottle How Queer Man Is,

In Message i n the Bottle , Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us.

Walker Percy is the author of over ten books, many of which were bestsellers, and he is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time.

The Delta Factor

3

(43)

The Loss of the Creature

46

(18)

Metaphor as Mistake

64

(19)

The Man on the Train

83

(18)

Notes for a Novel About the end of the World

101

(18)

The Message in the Bottle

119

(31)

The Mystery of Language

150

(9)

Toward a Triadic Theory of Meaning

159

(30)

The Symbolic Structure of Interpersonal Process

189

(26)

Culture: The Antinomy of the Scientific Method

215

(28)

Semiotic and a Theory of Knowledge

243

(22)

Symbol, Consciousness, and Intersubjectivity

265

(12)

Symbol as Hermeneutic in Existentialism

277

(11)

Symbol as Need

288

(10)

A Theory of Language

298

(33)

Bibliography

331

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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

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