LEADER 03557oam 22005174a 450 001 9910524843903321 005 20230614140131.0 010 $a0-253-05172-X 035 $a(CKB)5600000000001628 035 $a(OCoLC)1259585964 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse92652 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/88320 035 $a(EXLCZ)995600000000001628 100 $a20100318d1981 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe time of the sign $ea semiotic interpretation of modern culture /$fedited by Vivian Ling Hsu 210 1$aBloomington :$cIndiana University Press,$d1981. 210 4$dİ1981. 215 $a1 online resource (1 online resource ix, 308 pages.) 225 0 $aChinese literature in translation 327 $aCaterpillar / 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 / T?ien T?ao -- At the precipice / Teng Yu-mei -- Spring is just around the corner / Ts?ao Ming -- Rain / Ai Wu -- Corduroy / Hsi Jung -- Old team captain welcomes a bride / Sung Shun-k?ang -- A day in Pleasantville / Pai Hsien-yung -- Nightfall / Yu? Li-hau -- A rose in June / Ch'en Ying-chen -- Born of the same roots / Yang Ch?ing ch?u -- May he return soon / Wang T?o -- My friend Ai Fen / Chen Jo-hsi. 330 $aA 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. 606 $aWomen$xSocial life and customs$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst01176964 606 $aChinese fiction$2fast$3(OCoLC)fst00857362 606 $aWomen$zChina$xSocial life and customs$vFiction 606 $aChinese fiction$y20th century$vTranslations into English 607 $aChina$2fast 608 $aTranslations. 608 $aFiction. 610 $aLiterary theory 615 0$aWomen$xSocial life and customs. 615 0$aChinese fiction. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial life and customs 615 0$aChinese fiction 700 $aMacCannell$b Juliet Flower$4auth$0457655 702 $aLing$b Vivian 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910524843903321 996 $aThe time of the sign$93380451 997 $aUNINA