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The Pursuit of Signs
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The Pursuit of Signs as discussed by the authors is one of the first books to explore the closed world of literary criticism, and it has had a profound impact on the development of literary theory.Abstract:
To gain a deeper understanding of the literary movement that has dominated recent Anglo-American literary criticism, The Pursuit of Signs is a must. In a world increasingly mediated, it offers insights into our ways of consuming texts that are both brilliant and bold. Dancing through semiotics, reader-response criticism, the value of the apostrophe and much more, Jonathan Culler opens up for every reader the closed world of literary criticism. Its impact on first publication, in 1981, was immense; now, as Mieke Bal notes, 'the book has the same urgency and acuity that it had then', though today it has even wider implications: 'with the interdisciplinary turn taking hold, literary theory itself, through this book, becomes a much more widespread tool for cultural analysis'.read more
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Cours de linguistique générale
TL;DR: The catalogue général de la BnF (BnF) as discussed by the authors is a collection of documents related to linguistics and linguistics published by the British National Library (BNF).
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A Theory of Semiotics
TL;DR: A general survey of semiotic and factual statements can be found in this paper, where the authors define two definitions of semiotics: inference and signification, the lower threshold and the upper threshold.
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Fundamentals of Language
TL;DR: This article present a critical survey of Roman Jakobson's views on phonology, a theory of sound patterns, and their stratification, ranging widely over many problems of language and its disturbances, literature and general symbolic behaviour.
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What Metaphors Mean
TL;DR: The interpretation of a metaphor is as much a creative endeavor as making a metaphor, and as little guided by rules as mentioned in this paper, and the act of interpretation is itself a work of the imagination.