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HISTORY AND AUTHORS

Barthes - Eco - Greimas - Hjelmslev - Peirce - Saussure
The list of authors and indications is of course incomplete.
New suggestions are welcome.

Roland Barthes (1915-1980) La culture en question. Essay on Mythologies By Tony McNeill, University of Sunderland, GB, 1996 Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 11.02.01 Myth, today The electronic text of one of the essays included in Mythologies, in the english translation typed by Scott Atkins, University of Virginia, 1995 Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 11.02.01 Semiology - Roland Barthes - Theories, by Tom Wright, University of Arizona, 1998 The page of a course on Roland Barthes. Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 11.02.01
Umberto Eco (1932) Il Mondo secondo Eco Italian translation, by the Società di Mutuo Soccorso in Rifredi (Florence), of an interview with Eco first published in English on Wired 5.03. The page includes also various other Eco indications. 1998 Language: ITALIAN Last visited: 11.02.01
Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917 - 1992) Qu'est-ce que le carré sémiotique ? Quel est l'apport d'A.J. Greimas et de l'Ecole de Paris ? An explaination of Greimas themes in the rich site of Semiotics edited by Robert Marty, University of Perpignan, France. Language: FRENCH. Last visited: 11.02.01 "Vent'anni dopo esce in Italia il Maupassant di Greimas" by Francesco Marsciani, review published on Lexia 8,1995, p.10 Language: ITALIAN Last visited: 11.02.01 On Greimas see also section: NARRATIVITY (in Italian)
Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) Quel fut l'apport de Louis Hjelmslev ? Hjemslev's page in the rich site of Semiotics edited by Robert Marty, University of Perpignan, France. Language: FRENCH. Last visited: 11.02.01
Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) The Peirce Edition Project - Indiana University, Indianapolis (Dir: Prof. Nathan Hauser) The main objective of the Peirce Project is the production of a chronological edition of Peirce's writings, starting from a work on the manuscripts (Indiana University Press has already published five of the thirty volumes foreseen). For each of the published volumes, the site provides abstract, summary and introduction; there is also an introduction to the author's life and work , a chronology, the very useful Robin catalog of writings and a list of all the people who corresponded with Peirce. This is no doubt the reference site for Peircean writings. Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 10.02.01 Groupo de Estudios Peirceanos, University of Navarra, Spain (Dir.: Jaime Nubiola) Since 1994 the GEP promotes Peirce work in Spain. Among the interesting tools offered by this site, a rich bibliography of peircian writings available in the Dept. library. Languages: ENGLISH, SPANISH Last visited: 10.02.01 Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society (Ed.: Peter H. Hare and Richard S. Robin) Founded in 1965, this journal is named after Peirce but devoted more in general to the history of North American philosophical thought. The site contains issues until 1996, and provides useful information on the activities of the society. Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 10.02.01 Charles S. Peirce It includes a bibliography of Peirce writings and a list of internet resources ( a page devoted to Peirce's life and times is also announced). The site is privately edited by Brian Kariger (California), without any institutional support. Languge: ENGLISH Last visited: 10.02.01 Nijmegen C.S. Peirce Study Center (Dir.: Prof. Guy Debrock) Isolated page of the Peirce research center from the Philosophy Dept. in the Faculty of Sciences, University of Nijmegen, Holland. Language: ENGLISH, DUTCH. Last visited: 10.02.01 Arisbe - International Peirce Telecommunity (Ed.: Prof. Joseph Randell, Texas Tech University, Dept. of Philosophy) This site aims to be a reference point for all the internet resources regarding Charles S. Peirce; it includes an annotated list of electronic texts by and on Peirce. Arisbe is the name of a house where Peirce long lived, now seat of a naturalistic research center . Language: ENGLISH Last visited: 10.02.01 International Research Group on Abductive Inference (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, Germany) Interesting site, rich of tools, on non-deductive thinking, pragmatic reasoning and especially abductive inference, that Charles S. Peirce considered 'the first stage of inquiry and semiotic interpretation'. Languages: GERMAN, ENGLISH Last visited: 10.02.01
Ferdinand De Saussure (1857-1913) Language: social and personal (by Hervé Varenne) The site of a course of Culture and Communication devoted to Saussure's linguistics and held by Prof. Varenne, University of Columbia. Language: ENGLISH. Last visited: 10.02.01 Quelles sont les caractéristiques du signe saussurien ? An explaination of Saussurean themes in the rich site of Semiotics edited by Robert Marty, University of Perpignan, France. Language: FRENCH. last visited: 10.02.01 Jerry Everard's Introduction to Saussure A brief introduction, in the page of a researcher from the Australian National University, 1997. Language: ENGLISH. Last visited: 10.02.01 Saussure and the Swiss structuralists An analysis of the origins of linguistics through Saussure's work, in an hypertext on language and mental lexicon published in the site of a musical band by Philadelphia, the Lexicon. Language: ENGLISH. Last visited: 10.02.01

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