Pursuit of Signs CB - Couverture souple

Culler J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0801414172 ISBN 13 : 9780801414176

Editeur : Cornell University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Culler, Jonathan. The Pursuit of Signs - Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction. New York, Cornell University Press, 1981. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XIII, 242 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector's Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification - the rules and conventions that determine the reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide ranging collection of essays, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature. (from front flap) Includes for example the following essays: Semiotics as a Theory of Reading / Presupposition and Intertextuality / Apostrophe / The Story of Discourse in the Analysis of Narrative / Stanley Fish and the Righting of teh Reader / The Turns of Metaphor etc.

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: Cornell University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801414172
• ISBN 13: 9780801414176
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 268
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible