Redefining literary semiotics
By: edited by Harri Veivo, Christina Ljungberg, and Jørgen Dines Johansen.
Contributors: Veivo, Harri.; Ljungberg, Christina, 1949-; Johansen, Jørgen Dines.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781443804998
Subjects: Semiotics and literature
Description: "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 [sc. appreciation] that the focal concern of literary scholarship is irreducibly heterogeneous. This heterogeneity necessitates a variety of approaches. ... The contributors to this volume highlight the communicative functions of literary texts and, more controversially, the representational possibilities secured by literary production."--From the dust jacket (p. 3).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.