Full name: The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other

Author: Walker Percy Year: 1975 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy, Non Fiction, Essays, Writing Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312254018 0312254016

In Message in the Bottle, Walker Percy offers insights on such varied yet interconnected subjects as symbolic reasoning, the origins of mankind, Helen Keller, Semioticism, and the incredible Delta Factor. Confronting difficult philosophical questions with a novelist's eye, Percy rewards us again and again with his keen insights into the way that language possesses all of us. Similar books: Self-Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson On the Pleasure of Hating by William Hazlitt The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison Travels in Hyperreality by Umberto Eco I Wrote This Book Because I Love You by Tim Kreider The Essential Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson by Ralph Waldo Emerson Wormholes by John Fowles Essays by Michel de Montaigne The Essays by Francis Bacon On being blue by William H. Gass Changing My Mind by Zadie Smith Known and Strange Things by Teju Cole Thank You for Not Reading by Dubravka Ugresic How to Be Alone by Jonathan Franzen Quarrel & Quandary by Cynthia Ozick Signposts in a Strange Land by Walker Percy Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy Mythologies by Roland Barthes Zen in The Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury The Dialogic Imagination by Mikhail Bakhtin