Meaning and Textuality
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Meaning and Textuality

6 December 1997

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Summary

Historically there has been a wide gulf between European and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language, in part because it is often difficult to find important European works in English translation. Meaning and Textuality represents key elements of the ground-breaking new theory on signs and discourse that has come out of Europe in the last few decades.

Meaning and Textuality is an investigation into methods useful to the analysis of language and literature. Rastier seeks ways to better understand signs, with emphasis on their relation to action and culture. He proposes a theoretical framework for the semantic description and typology of texts. Towards this end he establishes a critical debate among various streams of research before arriving at a synthesis of literary semiotics, thematics, and linguistic semantics. The author sees this synthesis as a means by which to reconcile the rigour of linguistic analysis with the complexity of literary interpretation. In the later portion of the book he tests his propositions in a series of detailed investigations of French literary texts by Zola, Maupassant, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Jodelle. Each study examines a new problem such as narrative ambiguity or referential impression.

This book will be welcomed by scholars in any discipline concerned with discourse analysis and the close reading of texts.

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references: p [267]-271
Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
401/.43
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
21
General Note
Translation of: Sens et textualité
Includes indexes
Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
LCCN
P325
LCCN Item number
R3713 1997eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOTU
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xvi, 281 p. :)
Publisher or Distributor Number
CaOOCEL
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00211199
(OCoLC)780269465
(CaOOCEL)436394
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOTU
ISBN
978-1-4426-6483-8
0-8020-4167-1
Published in
Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions

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semantics sémantique

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