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A unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism.

Table of Contents
  • 1. Introduction (Wendy Steiner)
  • 2. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model (Benjamin Hrushovski)
  • 3. How Do We Establish New Codes of Verisimilitude? (Seymour Chatman)
  • 4. Intratextual Rewriting: Textuality as Language Formation (Charles F. Altman)
  • 5. Inside Greimas’s Square: Literary Characters and Cultural Constraints (Nancy Armstrong)
  • 6. Semantic Oscillation: A Universal of Artistic Expression (Elemér Hankiss)
  • 7. The Literary Artifact (Miroslav Červenka)
  • 8. Typography, Rhymes, and Linguistic Structures in Poetry (Nicolas Ruwet)
  • 9. Toward a Semiotics of Music (Henry Orlov)
  • 10. Two Views of Musical Semiotics (Allan R. Keiler)
  • 11. Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure (Alan M. Perlman and Daniel Greenblatt)
  • 12. The Problem of “Ethnic” Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music (John Blacking)
  • 13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method (David Lidov)
  • 14. A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music (Judith and Alton Becker)
  • 15. Preliminaries to a Semiotics of Ballet (Marianne Shapiro)
  • Bibliography

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    Publisher: University of Texas Press
    Publication Date: 01/07/1981
    ISBN13: 9780292769342, 978-0292769342
    ISBN10: 0292769342

    Description

    Book Synopsis
    A unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism.

    Table of Contents
    • 1. Introduction (Wendy Steiner)
    • 2. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model (Benjamin Hrushovski)
    • 3. How Do We Establish New Codes of Verisimilitude? (Seymour Chatman)
    • 4. Intratextual Rewriting: Textuality as Language Formation (Charles F. Altman)
    • 5. Inside Greimas’s Square: Literary Characters and Cultural Constraints (Nancy Armstrong)
    • 6. Semantic Oscillation: A Universal of Artistic Expression (Elemér Hankiss)
    • 7. The Literary Artifact (Miroslav Červenka)
    • 8. Typography, Rhymes, and Linguistic Structures in Poetry (Nicolas Ruwet)
    • 9. Toward a Semiotics of Music (Henry Orlov)
    • 10. Two Views of Musical Semiotics (Allan R. Keiler)
    • 11. Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure (Alan M. Perlman and Daniel Greenblatt)
    • 12. The Problem of “Ethnic” Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music (John Blacking)
    • 13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method (David Lidov)
    • 14. A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music (Judith and Alton Becker)
    • 15. Preliminaries to a Semiotics of Ballet (Marianne Shapiro)
    • Bibliography

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