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| Author | Walker Percy |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Non-fiction: essays |
| Publisher | Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Publication date | 1975 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardback) |
| Pages | 335 pgs |
| ISBN | 1-399-23128-6 |
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other is a collection of essays on semiotics written by Walker Percy and first published in 1975. Percy writes at what he sees as the conclusion of the modern age and attempts to create a middle ground between the two dying ideologies of that age: Judeo-Christian ethics, which give the individual freedom and responsibility; and the rationalism of science and behavioralism, which positions man as an organism in an environment and strips him of this freedom.[1][2][3][4]
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- ^ Lawson, Lewis A. (March 1989). "The Message in the Bottle". Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series: 1–4.
- ^ "Peter Handke, Walker Percy, and the End of Modernity". Essays in Literature. 19 (2): 291–297. Fall 1992.
- ^ Berthoff, Anne E. (Summer 1994). "Walker Percy's castaway". Sewanee Review. 102 (3): 409.