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Title:

The Sign of three : Dupin, Holmes, Peirce / edited by Umberto Eco and Thomas A. Sebeok.

Publisher:

Indiana University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1983

Description:

xi, 236 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Doyle, Arthur Conan,--Sir,--1859-1930--Sherlock Holmes.--Sherlock Holmes.
Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849--Auguste Dupin.--Auguste Dupin.
Peirce, Charles S.--(Charles Sanders),--1839-1914.
Detective and mystery stories--History and criticism.
Criminal investigation in literature.
Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character)
Private investigators in literature.
Logic in literature.
Semiotics.
Doyle, Arthur Conan,--Sir,--1859-1930--Sherlock Holmes.--Sherlock Holmes.
Poe, Edgar Allan,--1809-1849--Auguste Dupin.--Auguste Dupin.
Peirce, Charles S.--(Charles Sanders),--1839-1914.
Novela policiaca y de misterio.
Roman policier--Histoire et critique.
Enquêtes criminelles dans la littérature.
Logique dans la littérature.
Sémiotique.
Semiotiek.
Misdaadverhalen.

Other Authors:

Eco, Umberto.
Sebeok, Thomas A. (Thomas Albert), 1920-2001

Notes:

Bibliography: p. 221-236.

Contents:

Horns, hooves, insteps: some hypotheses on three types of abduction / Umberto Eco. "You know my method": a juxtaposition of Charles S. Peirce and Sherlock Holmes / Thomas A. Sebeok and Jean Umiker-Sebeok -- Sherlock Holmes: applied social psychologist / Marcello Truzzi -- Morelli, Freud, and Sherlock Holmes: clues and scientific method / Carlo Ginzburg -- To guess or not to guess? / Massimo A. Bonfantini and Giampaolo Proni -- Peirce, Holmes, Popper / Gian Paolo Carettini -- Sherlock Holmes confronts modern logic: toward a theory of information-seeking through questioning / Jaakko Hintikka and Merrill B. Hintikka -- Sherlock Holmes formalized / Jaakko Hintikka -- The body of the detective model: Charles S. Peirce and Edgar Allan Poe / Nancy Harrowitz -- Horns, hooves, insteps: some hypotheses on three types of abduction / Umberto Eco.

Series:

Advances in semiotics

ISBN:

9780253352354
0253352355

LCCN:

82049207

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OZAX845 -- Northwestern College - DeWitt Library (Orange City)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UUAX975 -- Briar Cliff University - Mueller Library (Sioux City)