Redefining Literary Semiotics

Redefining Literary Semiotics
Author :
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 255
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781443809368
ISBN-13 : 1443809365
Rating : 4/5 (68 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Redefining Literary Semiotics by : Jørgen Dines Johansen

Download or read book Redefining Literary Semiotics written by Jørgen Dines Johansen and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume marks a shift. For it reveals how literary semiotics at present has moved toward methodological pluralism. The sharp lines of division, especially between the two most dominant approaches, those of C.S. Peirce and Ferdinand de Saussure, have dissolved and a manifest synergy has emerged from the deepening appreciating that the focal concern of literary scholarship is irreducibly heterogeneous. This heterogeneity necessitates a variety of approaches. The significance of literary texts is neither entirely identifiable with authorial intention nor susceptible to empirical verification. Even so, the possibility of shared meaning and mutual understanding, whether or not acknowledged, animates the work of literary scholars. Approaches and theories in which communication and representation are explained, rather than explained away, deserve a fuller hearing than they have received in the recent past. The contributors to this volume highlight the communicative functions of literary texts and, more controversially, the representational possibilities secured by literary production.


Redefining Literary Semiotics Related Books

Redefining Literary Semiotics
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Jørgen Dines Johansen
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-03-26 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume marks a shift. For it reveals how literary semiotics at present has moved toward methodological pluralism. The sharp lines of division, especially b
Bloomsbury Semiotics Volume 3: Semiotics in the Arts and Social Sciences
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Jamin Pelkey
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-12 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Bloomsbury Semiotics offers a state-of-the-art overview of the entire field of semiotics by revealing its influence on a wide range of disciplinary perspectives
Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
Language: en
Pages: 279
Authors: W. John Coletta
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-24 - Publisher: Springer Nature

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas
The Pursuit of Signs
Language: en
Pages: 213
Authors: Jonathan Culler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-11-29 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world
Ways of Being in Literary and Cultural Spaces
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Leo Loveday
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-09-23 - Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In accordance with the notion that “identity” is absolutely central to ontological and discursive practices, this volume explores a multiplicity of “ways