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The fate of meaning : Charles Peirce, structuralism, and literature /

This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and shows that his concept of the sign can give us a fresh understanding of literary art and criticism. John Sheriff analyzes the treatment of determinate meaning and contends that a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheriff, John K., 1944- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1989]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • One. Beginning With Saussure: The Sentence-Text Analogy
  • Two. The Reader/Text as Indeterminate
  • Three. Meaning Endlessly Deferred
  • Four. Starting Over: Pence's Theory of Signs
  • Five. Art: Meaning as a Sign of Possibility
  • Six. Criticism: Meaning as a Sign of Fact
  • Seven. Theory: Meaning as a Sign of Reason
  • Index.