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Culler, Jonathan. 1981. The pursuit of signs: Semiotics, literature, deconstruction. Routledge and Kegan Paul. xii + 242 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English

Annotation

Literary criticism is described as the pursuit of signs, the attempt to grasp, comprehend and describe evasive signifying structures. This general book on literary semiotics contains chapters on presupposition and intertextuality, story and discourse in the analysis of narrative, metaphor, etc..