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The sign of three : Dupin, Holmes, Peirce / edited by Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eco, Umberto, Author.
- Series:
- Advances in semiotics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930--Characters--Sherlock Holmes.
- Doyle, Arthur Conan.
- Poe, Edgar Allan, 1809-1849--Characters--Auguste Dupin.
- Poe, Edgar Allan.
- Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914.
- Peirce, Charles S.
- Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
- Detective and mystery stories.
- Criminal investigation in literature.
- Logic in literature.
- Semiotics.
- Holmes, Sherlock.
- Private investigators in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 236 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c1983.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- One, two, three spells UBERTY / Thomas A. Sebeok
- "You know my method": a juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes / Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok
- Sherlock Holmes: applied social psychologist / Marcello Truzzi
- Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method / Carlo Ginzburg
- To guess or not to guess? / Massimo A. Bonfantini and Giampaolo Proni
- Peirce, Holmes, Popper / Gian Paolo Carettini
- Sherlock Holmes confronts modern logic: toward a theory of information-seeking through questioning / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka
- Sherlock Holmes formalized / Jaakko Hintikka
- The body of the detective model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz
- Horns, hooves, insteps: some hypotheses on three types of abduction / Umberto Eco.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 221-236.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-02072-8
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