| Redefining Literary Semiotics Contributor(s): Johansen Jã Rgen Dines (Editor), Ljungberg, Christina (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1443804991 ISBN-13: 9781443804998 Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing OUR PRICE: $67.27 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2009 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Non-classifiable |
| LCCN: 2009529608 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 8.2" (1.10 lbs) 255 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher 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 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. |