Semiotics Right and Left
Christopher Norris, 4 September 1986
On Signs: A Semiotics Reader
edited by Marshall Blonsky.
Blackwell, 536 pp., £27.50, September 1985,0 631 10261 2 Show More
edited by Marshall Blonsky.
Blackwell, 536 pp., £27.50, September 1985,
“... get to grips with the politics of everyday experience without giving in to either temptation. Umberto Eco has a marvellous piece, ‘Strategies Of Lying’, which analyses Nixon’s shrewd manipulation of narrative codes in the televised ‘confession’ that followed the Watergate scandal. What the President tried to bring off was a crafty ... ”