Janet Frame : semiotics and biosemiotics in her early fiction / Paul Matthew St. Pierre.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

St. Pierre, Paul Matthew.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolism in literature.

Semiotics and literature.

Frame, Janet--Criticism and interpretation.

Frame, Janet.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Madison, NJ : Rowman & Litterfield Publishers, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St. Pierre exploits the linguistic discipline of semiotics and the neurobiological discipline of biosemiotics to propose an original and dynamic reading of the first four works of fiction by New Zealand writer Janet Frame (1924-2004): The Lagoon: Stories (1951), Owls Do Cry (1957), Faces in the Water (1961), and The Edge of the Alphabet (1962). Opposing the prevailing reading of Frame's early fiction as autobiographical, deriving from her medical history, he argues her books are singular evocations of her astonishing

Contents:

JANET FRAME; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Writing the Body in the Body of Writing of Janet Frame; 1. Signs, Signatories, Semiotics in The Lagoon; 2. The Spatialization of Sound-Image Signs in Owls Do Cry; 3. A Biosemiotics of Facial Displays in Faces in the Water; 4. The Biosemiotic Self as Body in The Edge of the Alphabet; 5. Frame's Apprenticeship to Journeyman and Master Writer; Glossary; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-68393-976-X

1-283-13531-0

9786613135315

1-61147-051-X

OCLC:

731646765