Orphic revenge
The limits of language for a semiotics of religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4372991 |
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| Authors | Christopher I Lehrich (Boston University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 136-147 |
| Publication date | 2014-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religion (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0048-721X • E-ISSN: 1096-1151 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0048721x.2014.866722 |
| OpenAlex | W2085841484 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
This article examines Robert A. Yelle's Semiotics of Religion. The author argues that the project is weakened by an over-privileging of language as the only mode of semiosis. Using the figure of Orpheus and the semiotic exteriority of music, the author suggests that a semiotics of religion must escape this most fundamental logocentrism if it is not simply to perpetuate the ideological gestures Yelle works hardest to expose
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Gesture · Ideology · Linguistics · Political science · Semiosis · Semiotics · Semiotics of culture · Social semiotics · Sociology · Visual semiotics · Law · Media, Communication, and Education · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Visual Culture and Art Theory
| Highly cited | No |
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