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Book 2011.0

Russian Formalist Criticism

Translated and with an Introduction by Lee T. Lemon | Marion J. Reis

Literature University of Nebraska Press 9780803254602 Available

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Other title information: Four essays

Annotation: College English Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included here are four essays representing key points in the formalists' short history. Victor Scklovsky's pathbreaking "Art as Technique" (1917) vindicates disorder in literary style. His 1921 essay on Tristram Shandy makes that eccentric novel the centerpiece for a theory of narrative. A section from Tomashevsky's "Thematics" (1925) inventories the elements of stories. In "The Theory of the 'Formal Method'" (1927) Boris Eichenbaum defends Russian formalism from many attacks. An able champion, he describes formalism's evolution, notes its major workers and works, clears away decayed axioms, and rescues literature from "primitive historicism" and other dangers. These essays set a course for literary studies that led to Prague structuralism, French semiotics, and postmodern poetics. Russian Formalist Criticism has been honored as a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year by the American Library Association.

Identifier: 9780803254602

Status: Available

Book 1999.0

Form miming meaning

edited by Max Nänny and Olga Fischer

General Semiotics John Benjamins Publishing Company 9027221790 Available

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Other title information: iconicity in language and literature

Annotation: This collection puts the interdisciplinary study of iconic dimensions (comprising what has been termed 'imagic iconicity', as well as 'diagrammatic iconicity', i.e. iconicity of a more abstract and less semiotic type) on the map, paying special attention to the use of iconicity in literary texts.

Identifier: 9027221790

Status: Available

Book 1999.0

Umberto Eco

Michael Caesar

Edition
1 edition

General Semiotics Polity Press 0745608493 Available

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Other title information: philosophy, semiotics, and the work of fiction

Annotation: The book provides a comprehensive introduction to the work and thought of Umberto Eco, retracing his impact on literary studies, semiotics, aesthetics and philosophy.

Identifier: 0745608493

Status: Available

Book 1995.0

Peirce's Semiotics Now

Floyd Merrell

Dependent title
a primer

General Semiotics Canadian Scholars' Press 1551300826 Available

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Annotation: Peirce's Semiotics Now: A Primer is written for the student of semiotics, linguistics, communication, literary and aesthetic studies and philosophy. It provides a penetrating introduction to Charles S. Peirce's concept of the sign, as distinguished from Ferdinand de Saussure's linguistic theory. The author places Peircean semiotics in today's cultural setting. It thus accounts for our multicultural, intertextual, high-tech, postmodern scene, as a set of unifying ideas at the heart of which lies semiosis, the perpetual movement of signs

Identifier: 1551300826

Status: Available

Book 1995.0

Theories of literature in the twentieth century

Douwe Fokkema | Elrud Ibsch

Edition
2 edition

Literature St. Martin's Press 0312124481 Available

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Other title information: structuralism, Marxism, aesthetics of reception, semiotics

Annotation: This book takes stock of the major theoretical schools which hold sway over literary studies in the present age. Structuralism, Marxism, Aesthetics of Reception, and Semiotics are discussed in relation to their historical context and their present significance.

Identifier: 0312124481

Status: Available