Horsey, Horsey
John Sturrock, 16 November 1995
The Search for the Perfect Language
by Umberto Eco, translated by James Fentress.
Blackwell, 385 pp., £24.95, September 1995,0 631 17465 6 Show More
by Umberto Eco, translated by James Fentress.
Blackwell, 385 pp., £24.95, September 1995,
Mimologics
by Gérard Genette, translated by Thaïs Morgan.
Nebraska, 446 pp., £23.95, September 1995,0 8032 2129 0 Show More
by Gérard Genette, translated by Thaïs Morgan.
Nebraska, 446 pp., £23.95, September 1995,
“... of one or two letters – vowels, inevitably – this can seem almost plausible, as when the great Julius Caesar Scaliger compares the phonomimetics of O and I and decides that ‘the figure [O] comes from a representation of the circle of the mouth, whereas the I, which notates the shrillest sound, appears without either hump or belly.’ But even if we ... ”