Walker Percy and the Magic of Naming:
The Semeiotic Fabric of Life
My dissertation is on Walker Percy, a contemporary American author, and his view of language, what it is, how it is uniquely human, why we use it, and what that shows about the nature of human beings and the fabric of life. It discusses his use of American pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce's philosophy and a numbers model for language and the world; then it discusses the numbers that Percy uses in his last three novels, relating to his language theory.
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