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Semiotics of Poetry Michael Riffaterre.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Riffaterre, Michael.
- Series:
- Advances in semiotics
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics.
- Poetry.
- Poesie.
- Semiotique.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource x, 213 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Indiana University Press 1978
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 1978.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Beyond mimesis" might have been a fitting motto for this essay, which asserts that poetry works not through mimesis, the literary representation of reality, but through a semiotic process of displacement and transformation. Drawing on examples from 19th- and 20th-century French poetry (with translations), Riffaterre describes the structure of meaning in a poem . He argues for the self-sufficiency of a literary text and firmly establishes the dialectic between text and reader, between poetic and everyday discourse. The key term in his analysis is the hypogram, a preexistent word group—a cliche, stereotype, epithet , or even another literary work—from which poeticity is derived. Semiotics of Poetry is a lucidly argued and provocative book which will interest readers concerned with poetic and literary theory.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-253-05108-8
- OCLC:
- 1259584389
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