The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

ISBN-13: 9780415253826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 304 str.

Jonathan Culler

Opis

Here this immensely influential 20 year old title is reissued due to its continuing relevance as a tool in understanding the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism.

Recenzje

'Twenty years ago, if you wanted to know where literary theory was at, I'd say 'semiotics', and Culler's Pursuit of Signs was the best way to see the links. Today? Same answer. Overview, criticism, problems and solutions: Culler offers them all in each chapter, on key topics and questions of the humanities. The book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then. Except that, with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis.'

Spis treści

Part I; Chapter 1 BEYOND INTERPRETATION; Chapter 2 IN PURSUIT OF SIGNS; Part II; Chapter 3 SEMIOTICS AS A THEORY OF READING; Chapter 4 RIFFATERRE AND THE SEMIOTICS OF POETRY; Chapter 5 PRESUPPOSITION AND INTERTEXTUALITY; Chapter 6 STANLEY FISH AND THE RIGHTING OF THE READER; Part III; Chapter 7 APOSTROPHE; Chapter 8 THE MIRROR STAGE; Chapter 9 STORY AND DISCOURSE IN THE ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE; Chapter 10 THE TURNS OF METAPHOR; Chapter 11 LITERARY THEORY IN THE GRADUATE PROGRAM R EFERENCES I NDEX;

O autorze

Jonathan Culler (1944- ), Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Cornell University, pioneered the application of semiotics to the study of literature in the English-speaking world. Other publications include Structuralist Poetics and On Deconstruction.