Untwisting the Serpent
Subtitle: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: May 1, 1999
Language: eng
Number of pages: 410
ISBN-13: 9780226012544
First sentence: DEFINITIONS. A hieroglyph is a visual sign that speaks-an instantaneous grasp of meaning, defying the division between the pictorial and the linguistic, between space and time.