Semiotics and Interpretation / Nancy F. Cott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cott, Nancy F., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criticism.

Semiotics and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [1959]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Accessible yet challenging, this book will be the indispensable introductory text for semiotics-indeed for any theoretical course in the humanities and social sciences that deals with the theory of these disciplines."-Choice "The book offers . . . a clutch of examples of semiotics usefully and intelligently applied, which Schole's patient, cheerful tone and his resolutely concrete vocabulary manage to combine into a breezily informative American confection."-Terence Hawkes, Times Literary Supplement "This critique demonstrates once more that Scholes . . . is one of the most authoritative scholars in the field of semiotics."-The Antioch Review "[Scholes] applies the range of semiotic theory to a series of other texts-poems, stories, films, a scene from a play, bumper stickers, even a part of the human anatomy. . . . When we finish this text (which includes a useful glossary and descriptive bibliography), we feel that we have learned the basic principles of semiotics and can apply them in our teaching and criticism; as a bonus, we gain many new insights into familiar texts."-Richard Pearce, Novel "[Scholes] is among our best interpreters of literary theory. . . . He provides not only an argument for semiotics but an informed criticism of it as well."-Martin Green, The Literary Review

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. The Humanities, Criticism, And Semiotics

2. Toward A Semiotics Of Literature

3. Semiotics Of The Poetic Text

4. Narration And Narrativity In Film And Fiction

5. A Semiotic Approach To Irony In Drama And Fiction

6. Semiotic Approaches To Joyce's "Eveline"

7. Decoding Papa: "A Very Short Story" As Work And Text

8. Uncoding Mama: The Female Body As Text

Glossary Of Semiotic Terminology

Select Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300160932

0300160933

OCLC:

1024020164