The work of ... Pencak, in penetrating the traditional field of historiographical study from an explicitly semiotic point of view, is one of the most essential advances in the developing understanding of semiotics today. (John Deely, Loras College) Pencak ... participates in the paradoxical adventure of defining semiotics in the act of writing history ... Writing about (Carl) Becker as a past historian who signified the best of his discipline, (he) could not have more boldly seized upon the historiographical process itself than in his retrospective - and prospective - rendering of Carl Becker as a precursor to a semiotics of history. (Brooke Williams, Loras College) Skryť popis