Fundamentals of story logic : introduction to Greimassian semiotics / by Therese Budniakiewicz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budniakiewicz, Therese.

Series:

Semiotic crossroads ; v. 5.

Semiotic crossroads, 0922-5072 ; v. 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Semiotics--France.

Semiotics.

Greimas, Algirdas Julien.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations, namely the "eventual or dynamic configurations corresponding to communication or to contract or, more general, to the structure of exchange." Because of the emphasis it lays on the logical frame underlying the syntagmatic dimension of the story, the book contributes to an integrated descriptive model d

Contents:

FUNDAMENTALS OF STORY LOGIC INTRODUCTION TO GREIMASSIAN SEMIOTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Foreword: Fundamentals of Story Logic or Semiotics at the Crossroads; Introduction; 1. The field of semiotics and the tradition of the Paris School of semiotics; 2. The Paris School of semiotics in America; 3. A historical sketch of Greimassian semiotics; 4. Situation and plan of the work; I. Nucleus of the Sentence and Nucleus of the Text: The Semantic Grammar of Propositions; II. The Semantics of Event and Role Relationships; 1. Theoretical target

2. The simple narrative statement3. Verbs of motion and the associated network of roles; III. A Systemic Definition of Action: The Practical Syllogism; 1. The practical syllogism; 2. Teleological explanation of action; 3. Textual and narrative arguments; 4. The sentence object reconsidered; IV. The Subject-Object Relation in Actantial Grammar; 1. Desire and teleology; 2. The modal want: desire of realization of action; 3. The aim of goal-oriented action; 3a The object as mediating value; 3b Conjunction and disjunction; 3c Methodological by-play: deconstruction and the subject-object relation

3d The polemical (agonistic) model of narrative4. The explanatory logic of action; 5. On defining the problems involved in the practical inference or the pragmatic act; V. Sequel to the Semantics of Event and Role Relationships; 1. The simple narrative statement: communication; 2. Codicil to the theoretical target; 3. Normalization and derivation of contract [A] and communication [C]: first approximation; VI. Excursus on the Legal Philosophy of Contract and the Sociology of Exchange; VII. Normalization and Derivation of Contract [A] and Communication [C]: Second Approximation

1. Relation of the object to the contract [A]1a Agreement and mutual consent; 1b Task and interaction; 1c Consequence; 1d Justice; 2. Relation of the object to communication; 2a The object-of-communication as an object-of-motion: the topological syntax of object-values; 2b The recognition of the hero and his acceptance by society; 2c Progression of the hero's role-identities and his/her individuation; VIII. Global Interpretation of the Tale; 1. The achronic and paradigmatic structure of the tale; 2. The diachronic and syntagmatic structure of the tale

3. Colligation: narrativity, human agency, and authority4. The actantial model; Appendix: The ""Boolean Algebra"" of Narrative Events; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-42444-4

9786613424440

90-272-7728-1

OCLC:

769344110