Description
Book SynopsisA 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
