The subject of semiotics / by Kaja Silverman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silverman, Kaja.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics.

Discourse analysis.

Psychoanalysis.

Communication--Sex differences.

Communication.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (446 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.

Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Contents; 1 From Sign to Subject, A Short History; a) FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE; b) CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE; c) ROLAND BARTHES; d) JACQUES DERRIDA; e) EMILE BENVENISTE; 2 Primary and Secondary Processes; a) THE EARLY TOPOGRAPHY; b) THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE; c) REPRESSION AND DISGUISE; d) PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PROCESSES; e) DESIRE AND SIGNIFICATION; 3 Similarity and Contiguity; a) CONDENSATION AND DISPLACEMENT; b) PARADIGM AND SYNTAGM; c) METAPHOR AND METONYMY; d) FACILITATIONS; 4 The Subject; a) THE FREUDIAN MODEL; b) THE LACANIAN MODEL

i) BIRTH, TERRITORIALIZATION, AND LACKii) THE IMAGINARY; iii) SIGNIFICATION; iv) THE SYMBOLIC; 5 Suture; a) DISCOURSE AND SUBJECTIVITY; b) SUTURE: THE CINEMATIC MODEL; c) SUTURE AND IDEOLOGY; d) SUTURE AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE; 6 Re-Writing the Classic Text; a) THE READERLY TEXT; b) THE WRITERLY TEXT; c) THE CODES; i) THE SEMIC CODE; ii) THE HERMENEUTIC CODE; iii) THE PROAIRETIC CODE; iv) THE SYMBOLIC CODE; V) THE CULTURAL CODES; Notes; Selected Bibliography in English; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-19-987854-4

1-283-13029-7

9786613130297

0-19-977215-0

OCLC:

729244731