Semiosis, Marginal Signs and Trickster: A Dagger of the Mind

Spinks, C.W.

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 argues that signs are, at base, generative things creating as much as they refer.

Details

Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 1991-01-01

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9781349116652

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11663-8

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 232