Pursuit of Signs - Couverture souple

Culler, Jonathan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0710007582 ISBN 13 : 9780710007582

Editeur : Routledge, 1981

Synopsis

Investigates the semiotics of literature, reader-response criticism, and the implications of those aspects of literature emphasised by deconstruction.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-response criticism, the value of the apostrophe and much more, Jonathan Culler opens up for every reader the closed world of literary criticism. Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis'.

Biographie de l'auteur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 1981
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0710007582
• ISBN 13: 9780710007582
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible