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Dipped my littlest toe... 2 years ago

...into the great pond of semiotics several years ago when working on my undergraduate thesis in literature. Utterly fascinating, but have done little with this since. Thanks to a wonderful professor, I have what I think is a solid grounding in structuralism, and a basic grasp of Derrida’s deconstruction (though I find it extremely irritating at times). Dabbled in Peirce, but got all of it second-hand via other scholars.

I miss it terribly.

Nov 18, 2007, 08:46AM PST | 1 cheer

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Nov 19, 2007, 11:50AM PST

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

Excellent question.

I honestly am not sure. Eco is probably a good place to start. I have read all of his works of fiction, so it’s likely time for me to delve into his semiotics works proper.

Also, I need to revisit some work by a former professor of mine. He wrote two short books that both provide an intro to C. Peirce and suggest a way of applying his thinking to literary analysis. I used them both for my thesis, but now I think it’s time I read them cover to cover, rather than cherry-picking them for ideas that support my own thinking/arguments.

Nov 19, 2007, 01:11PM PST | Respond to this 1 cheer

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I'm glad for your post on this topic

Pierce seems sadistic, I don’t know anyone else famous in the field

It may be the best approach (in loving semiotics, if possible) is to do all the work yourself,

I love emblems and things,

please visit http://www.impossiblemachine.com/symbolism.html for related materials

Dec 14, 2008, 10:25AM PST | Thread | Respond to this 1 cheer

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

Lovely!

Thank you for this link. It’s both informative and aesthetically pleasing. It reminds me of two of my favorite reference books (both dictionaries of symbolism), but more fun.

Actually I am enamored with your entire website. Well done.

Umberto Eco is the only other semiotician that I have read. Most of the others I’ve heard of are interested in applied rather than more pure semiotics.

Dec 14, 2008, 10:59AM PST | Thread | Respond to this

NCoppedge is looking into a subsidized apartment

the name funniculee

must mean ‘funnicular’

a reference to railroads

and tilting differences of motion

I’m a lover of words, not to sound phony (?)

your accomodation of language is stimulating and invigorating

Dec 14, 2008, 12:09PM PST | Thread | Respond to this

funniculee is dredging up old memories of past literary loves

your accomodation of language is stimulating and invigorating

I could say the same for yours.

I was not familiar with ‘funnicular’ but looked it up. Apparently I have experienced a funicular railway firsthand – once, as a child visiting Pittsburgh – but they are called ‘inclines’ in the vernacular and I never learned the technical term. It is much more satisfying – thank you.

Dec 14, 2008, 12:18PM PST | Respond to this

NCoppedge is looking into a subsidized apartment

that comment is rejuvinating to me

I own a dictionary by c.e. cirlot (something like that)

if its the same I advise not to be spooked, its somewhat rare according to amazon’s lists

the word enamored is amazing of you

I have admired Eco’s prodigious production, and the literary flow,

my website is one of my major gambits in currying favor with irstwhile penpals

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