The pursuit of signs: semiotics, literature, deconstruction
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TextPublication details: London Routledge 2002Edition: 1stDescription: xxiii, 272pISBN: 0-415-25382-9Subject(s): Literature-criticismDDC classification: 801.95 Summary: The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification--the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature. A new preface places The Pursuit of Signs in the context of major developments in the study of literature since publication of the original Cornell edition in 1981.
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| 801.95 CON Contemporary critical theorists: from Lacan to Said | 801.95 CON A concise companion to modernism | 801.95 CUL/L Literary theory: a very short introduction | 801.95 CUL/P The pursuit of signs: semiotics, literature, deconstruction | 801.95 CUL/L Literary theory: a very short introduction | 801.95 CUN/R Reading after theory | 801.95 DAY/C Class |
Includes bibliographies and index.
The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification--the rules and conventions that determine a reader's understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide-ranging book, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature. A new preface places The Pursuit of Signs in the context of major developments in the study of literature since publication of the original Cornell edition in 1981.
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