Hailed in The New York Times Book Review as "eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative" and in The Washington Post Book World as "brilliantly original," Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that ...

The theme of Signifying Acts is that social acts are created by human agents engaging in signifying gestures and eliciting determined responses--from which flow a number of consequences.

This book introduces and provides commentary on a selection of published and unpublished works by Victoria Welby and exponents of the Signific Movement in the Netherlands.

This broad-ranging text offers a comprehensive outline of how visual images, language and discourse work as `systems of representation'.

A fresh assessment of the workings of animal symbolism in diverse cultures. Reconsiders the concept of totemism and exposes common fallacies in symbolic interpretation.

... SIGNIFYING GOD : SYMBOLIC PRACTICE How is God signified ? On the one hand , God as a supernatural con- cept underwrites the entire belief system and cosmology of late me- dieval culture . But on the other hand , it is the very ...