The time of the sign : a semiotic interpretation of modern culture / edited by Vivian Ling Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

MacCannell, Juliet Flower

Contributor:

Ling, Vivian, editor.

Series:

Chinese literature in translation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Social life and customs.

Women.

Chinese fiction.

Women--China--Social life and customs--Fiction.

Chinese fiction--20th century--Translations into English.

China.

Genre:

Translations.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 308 pages.)

Place of Publication:

Indiana University Press 1982

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1981.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A sociologist-anthropologist and a literary critic bring their complementary perspectives to bear on a critique of modern culture. They point to the academy's domination by a rationalist, liberal tradition as the locus of its decline in the post-modern era. A holistic, semiotic approach is offered as a vital and positive alternative. The book builds and expands on the authors' modified Saussurian model for the analysis of culture presented in the opening section. Part Two explores the implications of the general model for the social sciences and includes a discussion of Marx and Freud after semiotics; Part Three addresses literary and cultural criticism. The penultimate chapter, "On the Discriminations of Signs," reviews the recent historical evolution of intellectual schools of thought, from phenomenology through existentialism, structuralism, post-structuralism, and semiotics. It regards this evolution from the standpoint of the successive transformations of our understanding of "the sign." The book concludes with a critique of counterrevolutionary tendencies that have recently surfaced within semiotics. The Time of the Sign is an invigorating and probing work, with many acute insights into the development and analysis of cultural forms.

Contents:

Caterpillar / Lao She

Two women / Wu Tsu-hsiang

On the Oxcart / Hsiao Hung

Garbage cleaner / Lo Hua-sheng

West wind ; Chang Sao / Ping Hsin

Little Liu / Ling Shu-hua

Parting / Tʻien Tʻao

At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei

Spring is just around the corner / Tsʻao Ming

Rain / Ai Wu

Corduroy / Hsi Jung

Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-kʻang

A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung

Nightfall / Yü Li-hau

A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen

Born of the same roots / Yang Chʻing chʻu

May he return soon / Wang Tʻo

My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-05172-X

OCLC:

1259585964