Culler, Jonathan.

The Pursuit of Signs – Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction.

New York, Cornell University Press, 1981. 14.5 cm x 21.5 cm. XIII, 242 pages. Original Hardcover with the rare illustrated dustjacket in protective collector’s Mylar. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear.

The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification – the rules and conventions that determine the reader’s understanding of a text and that make literary communication possible. In this wide ranging collection of essays, he investigates the possibilities of a semiotics of literature. (from front flap)

Includes for example the following essays: Semiotics as a Theory of Reading / Presupposition and Intertextuality / Apostrophe / The Story of Discourse in the Analysis of Narrative / Stanley Fish and the Righting of teh Reader / The Turns of Metaphor etc.

• Keywords: 20th Century · Literary Criticism · Literary Non-Fiction
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801414172
• Inventory Number: 60197AB

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