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.
Authors
Paul J. Perron Paul J., François Rastier, Frank Collins, Paul Perron
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references: p [267]-271
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- 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
- ISBN
- 9781442664838 0802041671
- LCCN
- P325
- LCCN Item number
- R3713 1997eb
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- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xvi, 281 p. :)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00211199 (OCoLC)780269465 (CaOOCEL)436394
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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Table of Contents
- COVER 1
- CONTENTS 6
- FOREWORD 8
- INTRODUCTION 10
- SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS 16
- Part 1: Interpretative Semantics and Forms of Textuality 18
- 1 On the 'Objectivity' of Meaning 20
- 2 Difficulties of Avant-Garde Hermeneutics 26
- 3 Situations of Interpretation and Typology of Texts 36
- 4 Thematics 50
- 5 Dialectics 58
- 6 Dialogics 70
- 7 Tactics 79
- 8 The Interaction of the Semantic Components 85
- Part 2: Essays in Textual Semantics 90
- 9 Moon, Diana, Hecate 92
- 10 Goddamn! They Sure Made Short Work of the Blanquette of Veal! 118
- 11 Daddy Hen 149
- 12 The White Care of Our [Sail-]Cloth 185
- 13 Referential Impression or The Sun and the Shepherdess 202
- NOTES 232
- GLOSSARY 278
- A 278
- B 279
- C 279
- D 279
- E 279
- G 280
- H 280
- I 280
- K 280
- M 280
- P 281
- R 281
- S 281
- T 282
- U 282
- V 282
- W 282
- BIBLIOGRAPHY 284
- NAME INDEX 290
- A 290
- B 290
- C 290
- D 290
- F 290
- G 290
- H 291
- J 291
- K 291
- L 291
- M 291
- N 291
- P 291
- R 291
- S 291
- T 292
- V 292
- Y 292
- Z 292
- SUBJECT INDEX 294
- A 294
- B 294
- C 294
- D 295
- E 295
- F 295
- G 295
- H 295
- I 296
- J 296
- M 296
- N 296
- O 296
- P 296
- R 297
- S 297
- T 298
- U 298
- V 298
- W 298
