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8) Systemic Semiotics: A Deductive Study of Communication and Meaning, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. 7) The Semiotics of Light and Shadows: Modern Visual Arts and Weimar Cinema, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, paperback edition 2019. 6) From Interaction to Symbol: A Systems View of the Evolution of Signs and Communication, Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2009. From an review by Paul Bouissac, Professor Emeritus of the University of Toronto: “…radical critique of the current semiotic ‘doctrine’ and its indoctrinating of generations of philosophical and literary students”; “This is the way epistological revolutions start”. |
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5) Dynamism of Character in Shakespeare’s Mature Tragedies, Newark: University of Delaware Press/London: Associated University Presses, 2004. From a pre-publication review by Prof. Donald C. Mell, Chair of Board of Editors of the University of Delaware Press: “the book represents a scholarly achievement of the highest order”. Reviewed by Dr Emma Smith, University of Oxford, Times Literary Supplement, No. 5296, 2004, Oct 1, p. 31. |
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3) Systems Theory as an Approach to the Study of Literature: Origins and Functions of Literature, Lewiston-Queenston-Lampeter: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1999. From a pre-publication review by Prof. Nicholas Daly, University College Dublin: “a bold intervention in the contemporary fields of literary theory. . . . an alternative account of literary reception as communications-based that will be of interest to anyone who seeks an alternative to post-Saussurean theories of language and discourse. . . . One is carried along by the steady flow of Sadowski’s argument, and finds oneself having to question or defend one’s own basic views about literature and culture. There are not that many books about which one can say that.” From a pre-publication review by Prof. John Scattergood, Trinity College Dublin: “What Sadowski argues for is that the study of literature should be put on a rational and scientific basis.” From an anonymous review in Google Books: “Even if the presentation from a Systems Theory's stance is rather general Sadowski skillfully employs to make a presentation of literature viewed from that stance. This is a point here worth making as Systems Theory is a highly sophisticated subject”. From an anonymous review in GoodReads: “This book was a marvelous find. I needed a book that would help me tie my research of literary theory in with systems theories, and this book did not disappoint. As the culminating work I read in my studies it tied the theories I had studied into a very detailed analysis of Systems and Literature”. |
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2) The Knight on his Quest: Symbolic Patterns of Transition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Newark: Delaware University Press/London: Associated University Presses, 1996. Reviewed by Ad Putter in Medium Aevum, Sept. 22, 1997, and by Robert J. Blanch, Speculum. A Journal of Medieval Studies, Vol. 74, No. 2 (Apr., 1999), pp. 488-491; Correspondence in The Review of English Studies, Vol. 50, Issue 197, pp. 64-65 (1999). |
