03557oam 22005174a 450 991052484390332120230614140131.00-253-05172-X(CKB)5600000000001628(OCoLC)1259585964(MdBmJHUP)muse92652(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88320(EXLCZ)99560000000000162820100318d1981 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe time of the sign a semiotic interpretation of modern culture /edited by Vivian Ling HsuBloomington :Indiana University Press,1981.©1981.1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 308 pages.)Chinese literature in translationCaterpillar / 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.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.WomenSocial life and customsfast(OCoLC)fst01176964Chinese fictionfast(OCoLC)fst00857362WomenChinaSocial life and customsFictionChinese fiction20th centuryTranslations into EnglishChinafastTranslations.Fiction.Literary theoryWomenSocial life and customs.Chinese fiction.WomenSocial life and customsChinese fictionMacCannell Juliet Flowerauth457655Ling VivianMdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910524843903321The time of the sign3380451UNINA