SubjectsLiterature & Literary Studies / Semiotics
Book series
ISSN 0761-022X
Semiotic Crossroads
Edited by Paolo Fabbri, Herman Parret, Paul Perron and Eric Landowski
ISSN 0922-5072
Iconicity in Cognition and across Semiotic Systems
Edited by Sara Lenninger, Olga Fischer, Christina Ljungberg and Elżbieta Tabakowska
This volume investigates iconicity as to both comprehension and production of meaning in language, gesture, pictures, art and literature. It highlights iconic processes in meaning-making and interpretation across different semiotic systems at structurally, historically and pragmatically different… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 18] 2022. x, 411 pp.
Sound–Emotion Interaction in Poetry: Rhythm, Phonemes, Voice Quality
Reuven Tsur † and Chen Gafni
This book is a collection of studies providing a unique view on two central aspects of poetry: sounds and emotive qualities, with emphasis on their interactions. The book addresses various theoretical and methodological issues related to topics like sound symbolism, poetic prosody, and voice… read more[Linguistic Approaches to Literature, 39] 2022. xv, 448 pp.
The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
In his account of text and textual meaning, Pettersson demonstrates that a text as commonly conceived is not only a verbal structure but also a physical entity, two kinds of phenomena which do not in fact add up to a unitary object. He describes this current notion of text as convenient enough for… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 7] 2017. xiii, 196 pp.
Deep Locational Criticism: Imaginative place in literary research and teaching
Jason Finch
A lively series of spatial turns in literary studies since the 1990s give rise to this engaged and practical book, devoted to the question of how to teach and study the relationship between all sorts of literature and all sorts of location. Among the many concrete examples explored are texts… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 3] 2016. xiii, 249 pp.
Form Miming Meaning
Edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer
The recent past has seen an increasing interest in iconicity especially among linguists. This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed ‘imagic iconicity’, as well as ‘diagrammatic iconicity’, i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less… read more[Iconicity in Language and Literature, 1] 1999. xxxvi, 443 pp.
Literature, Criticism, and the Theory of Signs
Victorino Tejera
Following Peirce in his non-reductive understanding of the theory of signs as a branch of aesthetics, this book reconceptualizes the processes of literary creation, appreciation and reading in semiotic terms. Here is a carefully developed theory of what sort of criteria serve to distinguish… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 7] 1995. x, 168 pp.
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology
Augusto Ponzio
Signs, Dialogue and Ideology illustrates and critically examines both historically and theoretically the current state of semiotic discourse from Peirce to Bakhtin, through Saussure, Levinas, Schaff and Rossi-Landi to modern semioticians such as Umberto Eco. Ponzio is in search of a method to… read more[Critical Theory, 11] 1993. xviii, 185 pp.
Between Signs and Non-Signs
Ferruccio Rossi-Landi
The Italian philosopher F. Rossi-Landi (1921-1985) conducted pioneering work in the philosophy of language. His research is characterised by a critique of language and ideology in relation to sign production processes and the process of social reproduction. Between Signs and Non-Signs is a… read more[Critical Theory, 10] 1992. xxix, 322 pp.
Feminist Critical Negotiations
Edited by Alice A. Parker and Elizabeth A. Meese
This volume is a collection of original contributions in the field of feminist critical theory which reflect upon past practices and suggest new strategies and directions for future work. The articles are presented in two non-exclusive, interactive sections: “Theorizing Feminist Criticism” and “The… read more[Critical Theory, 9] 1992. xiv, 188 pp.
Fundamentals of Story Logic: Introduction to Greimassian semiotics
Therese Budniakiewicz
Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations,… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 5] 1992. xiv, 230 pp.
Mimesis in Contemporary Theory: An interdisciplinary approach: Volume 2: Mimesis, semiosis and power
Edited by Ronald Bogue
The essays collected in this volume focus on the interrelated themes of mimesis, semiosis and power, each study exploring some facet of the problem of representation and its relation to strategies of power in the use of verbal and visual signs. Topics discussed include mimesis and power in Plato's… read more[Cultura Ludens, 1:2] 1991. viii, 210 pp.
Paris School Semiotics: Volume I: Theory
Edited by Paul Perron and Frank Collins
It has often been claimed that the aim of semiotics is to establish a general theory of systems of signification. However, as Jean-Claude Coquet notes in a recent collection of essays, what distinguishes one school of semiotics from another is the initial definition given of sign. If, for certain… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 2] 1989. xxviii, 257 pp.
Semiotics of the Drama and the Style of Eugene O'Neill
Mark Kobernick
A semiotic analysis is made of the six major plays by Eugene O'Neill and an attempt is made to yield a systematic analysis towards humanistic interpretations of texts. Theoretical interpretations are enriched with discussions of the plays. Technical matters such as the segmentation of the text are… read more[Foundations of Semiotics, 19] 1989. xiv, 162 pp.
Literary Anthropology: A new interdisciplinary approach to people, signs and literature
Edited by Fernando Poyatos
The traditional gulf between the theory and practice of literature and the various areas subjoined under anthropology has hindered the development of some very fruitful perspectives in the realm of poetics and the general theory of literature (particularly in its narrative forms). Poyatos' initial… read more[Not in series, 36] 1988. xxiii, 353 pp.
Maupassant: the Semiotics of Text: Practical Exercises
Algirdas Julien Greimas
Translated by Paul Perron Maupassant's short story, “Two Friends”, is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre.… read more[Semiotic Crossroads, 1] 1988. xxxiv, 258 pp.
The Prague School and Its Legacy
Edited by Yishai Tobin
Many of the fundamental ideas of the classical Prague School have guided or inspired much of the interdisciplinary post World War II research in linguistics, literary theory, semiotics, folklore and the arts. The Prague School promoted a humanistic and functional Leitmotiv of language as an open,… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 27] 1988. xxx, 317 pp.
Poetics of Expressiveness: A Theory and Application
Yu Shcheglov and A. Zholkovsky
The volume presents for the first time in book form in English the work of two major representatives of the so-called Moscow-Tartu school. The Introduction outlines their project for a poetics of expressiveness against the background of the structural-semiotic movement of the '60s and '70s. Part I… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 18] 1987. ix, 361 pp.
Theory of Performing Arts
André Helbo
n recent years, the post structuralist theories seem to have created a split in theatrological research. But, as André Helbo analyses in this book , a dialectic theory of the semiotic and the symbolic exchange bring to light a specific paradigm. From his wide experience as a semiotician and a… read more[Critical Theory, 5] 1987. viii, 153 pp.
Bibliography of Semiotics, 1975–1985
Compiled by Achim Eschbach and Viktoria Eschbach-Szabó
This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have… read more[Library and Information Sources in Linguistics, 16] 1986. 948 pp. Bound in 2 vols.
L’Espace et le sens: ‘Germinal’ d'Émile Zola. Essai de sémiotique discursive (Space and Meaning. Emile Zola’s Germinal)
Denis Bertrand
La sémiotique a-t-elle quelque chose à dire sure la littérature en tant que sœur des ‘beaux-arts’? Peut-elle rendre compte des raisons d’une réussite d’écriture? – Intention naïve, dira-t-on, que de vouloir décourvrir, sure la base des seules méthodes structurales, pourquoi une œuvre nous captive.… read more[Actes Sémiotiques, 2] 1985. 213 pp.
Semiotics of Drama and Theatre: New Perspectives in the Theory of Drama and Theatre
Edited by Herta Schmid and Aloysius Van Kesteren
The volume presents perspectives in the theory of drama and theatre that are new for the following reasons: 1) the contributions reflect the international cooperation in developing drama and theatre as well as its theories; 2) this collection is the first attempt of presenting papers within the… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 10] 1985. 548 pp.
Meaning and Reading: A philosophical essay on language and literature
Michel Meyer
According to the traditional view, meaning presents itself under the form of some kind of identity. To give the meaning of a sentence amounts to being capable of producing some substitute based on the identity of the terms of the sentence. Is then the meaning of a book, or of any text, the capacity… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond, IV:3] 1983. ix, 176 pp.
The Structure of the Literary Process: Studies dedicated to the Memory of Felix Vodicka
Edited by Peter Steiner, Miroslav Červenka and Ronald Vroon
These papers on the structure of the literary process were brought together in memory of Felix Vodička (1909–1974). Contributions by: Jacek Baluch, Miroslav Červenka, Květoslav Chvatík, E.M. van Dam-Havelková, Sergej Davydov, Lubomir Doležel, Miroslav Drozda, Jan van der Eng, F.W. Galan, Mojmír… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 8] 1982. viii, 613 pp.
Semiotics and Dialectics: Ideology and the Text
Edited by Peter V. Zima
By focusing on the “East European” dialogues and polemics, both contemporary and past, the present volume pursues two aims: 1) It would like to locate the discussion between semiotics and dialectics in an historical context. 2) It would like to make the reader familiar with the solutions proposed… read more[Linguistic and Literary Studies in Eastern Europe, 5] 1981. vi, 573 pp.
Sign and Subject: Semiotic and Psychoanalytic Investigations into Poetry
Daniel Laferriere
[Studies in Semiotics, 14] 1978. 103 pp.