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Literary discourse : a semiotic-pragmatic approach to literature /

At a moment when 'literature' threatens to be collapsed into other discourses, or to be subsumed by such terms as 'narrative' and 'genre, ' J°rgen Dines Johansen, although he recognizes its protean nature, focuses on literature itself as it relates to other discourses....

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Johansen, Jørgen Dines
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©2002.
Colección:Toronto studies in semiotics and communication.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction: Literature?
  • 1 Trouble with Genres: The Instability of Categories
  • 2 The Todorov Hypothesis
  • 3 Exemplars and Contests
  • PART 1 SIGN, DIALOGUE, DISCOURSE
  • Chapter 1 From Sign to Dialogue
  • 1.1 Representation
  • 1.2 Immediate and Dynamical Object
  • 1.3 Icons, Indices, and Symbols
  • 1.4 The Uses of Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Signs
  • 1.5 The Interpretants
  • 1.6 Interpretant and Dialogue
  • 1.7 Utterer and Addresser, Addressee and Interpreter
  • 1.8 The Semiotic Pyramid
  • 1.9 The Interrelations of the Immediate Interpretants1.10 Language
  • 1.11 From Language to Text: The Three Levels of Linguistic Communication
  • Chapter 2 Discourse and Text
  • 2.1 Two Concepts of Discourse: Foucault and Habermas
  • 2.2 Discourse and Text
  • 2.3 The Four Discourses
  • 2.4 Literary Discourse
  • 2.5 Literature Becoming Literature
  • PART 2 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF THE LITERARY TEXT
  • Chapter 3 Mimesis: Literature as Imitation and Model
  • 3.1 Literature as Representation and Fiction
  • 3.2 Signs and Universes
  • 3.3 Ten Features of a Fictional Universe3.4 The Relation of Fictional and Historical Universes
  • 3.5 Similarity
  • 3.6 Literature and the Claim to Truth
  • 3.7 Fiction, Model, and Lifeworld
  • Chapter 4 Self-representation and Analogy in Literature
  • 4.1 Repetition as a Proto-aesthetic Phenomenon
  • 4.2 Repetition, Analogy, and Poeticity
  • 4.3 Analogy as a Cognitive and Textual Structural Principle
  • 4.4 Analogy and Metaphor
  • 4.5 From Repetition to Metaphor
  • 4.6 The Self-representation of Narrative
  • 4.7 Literature and the Existential Analogy
  • Chapter 5 Literature as Self-expression: Subjectivity and Imagination5.1 Self-representation and Self-expression
  • 5.2 Subject, Subjectivity, and Self-expression
  • 5.3 The Subject in Literature and Fiction
  • 5.4 The Subjective Thematics of Literature
  • 5.5 Desire and Fiction: Persinna's Confession
  • 5.6 Language, Materiality, and Repetition in Literature
  • 5.7 Naming and Enumeration
  • 5.8 Plenitude, Variety, Lack
  • 5.9 Non omnis moriar
  • Chapter 6 The Interpreters
  • 6.1 Literature as an Institution
  • 6.2 The Interpellation: Plaudite
  • 6.3 Mistrusting the Author6.4 Vitally Important Subjects
  • 6.5 Such stuff as dreams are made of
  • 6.6 Reading as Iconizing
  • 6.7 A Space of One's Own
  • 6.8 Complexity and Ambiguity in the Communication of Literature
  • PART 3 ON INTERPRETATION
  • Chapter 7 Interpreting Literature
  • 7.1 Interpretation as Semiosis
  • 7.2 Interpretation as Prediction and Reconstruction
  • 7.3 Reconstruction and/vs. Recontextualization
  • 7.4 Interpretation as Abduction and Rational Reconstruction
  • 7.5 The Practice and Predicaments of the Literary Interpretation