Fundamentals of Story Logic : Introduction to Greimassian Semiotics.
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 opera...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam :
John Benjamins Publishing Company,
1992.
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Colección: | Semiotic crossroads ;
v. 5. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- FUNDAMENTALS OF STORY LOGIC INTRODUCTION TO GREIMASSIAN SEMIOTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword: Fundamentals of Story Logic or Semiotics at the Crossroads; Introduction; 1. The field of semiotics and the tradition of the Paris School of semiotics; 2. The Paris School of semiotics in America; 3. A historical sketch of Greimassian semiotics; 4. Situation and plan of the work; I. Nucleus of the Sentence and Nucleus of the Text: The Semantic Grammar of Propositions; II. The Semantics of Event and Role Relationships; 1. Theoretical target.
- 2. The simple narrative statement3. Verbs of motion and the associated network of roles; III. A Systemic Definition of Action: The Practical Syllogism; 1. The practical syllogism; 2. Teleological explanation of action; 3. Textual and narrative arguments; 4. The sentence object reconsidered; IV. The Subject-Object Relation in Actantial Grammar; 1. Desire and teleology; 2. The modal want: desire of realization of action; 3. The aim of goal-oriented action; 3a The object as mediating value; 3b Conjunction and disjunction; 3c Methodological by-play: deconstruction and the subject-object relation.
- 3d The polemical (agonistic) model of narrative4. The explanatory logic of action; 5. On defining the problems involved in the practical inference or the pragmatic act; V. Sequel to the Semantics of Event and Role Relationships; 1. The simple narrative statement: communication; 2. Codicil to the theoretical target; 3. Normalization and derivation of contract [A] and communication [C]: first approximation; VI. Excursus on the Legal Philosophy of Contract and the Sociology of Exchange; VII. Normalization and Derivation of Contract [A] and Communication [C]: Second Approximation.
- 1. Relation of the object to the contract [A]1a Agreement and mutual consent; 1b Task and interaction; 1c Consequence; 1d Justice; 2. Relation of the object to communication; 2a The object-of-communication as an object-of-motion: the topological syntax of object-values; 2b The recognition of the hero and his acceptance by society; 2c Progression of the hero's role-identities and his/her individuation; VIII. Global Interpretation of the Tale; 1. The achronic and paradigmatic structure of the tale; 2. The diachronic and syntagmatic structure of the tale.
- 3. Colligation: narrativity, human agency, and authority4. The actantial model; Appendix: The "Boolean Algebra" of Narrative Events; Bibliography.