The Sign in Music and Literature / / ed. by Wendy Steiner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Altman, Charles F.,; Armstrong, Nancy,; Becker, Alton,; Becker, Judith,; Blacking, John,; Cervenka, Miroslav,; Chatman, Seymour,; Greenblatt, Daniel,; Hankiss, Elemér,; Hrushovski, Benjamin,; Keiler, Allan R,; Lidov, David,; Orlov, Henry,; Perlman, Alan M.,; Ruwet, Nicolas,; Shapiro, Marianne,; Steiner, Wendy,
• HerausgeberIn: Steiner, Wendy,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©1981
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)

The notion of semiotics as a universal language that can encompass any object of perception makes it the focus of a revolutionary field of inquiry, the semiotics of art. This volume represents a unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism. Though concerned specifically with the semiotics of music and literature, the essays reveal the breadth of semiotics’ interdisciplinary appeal, involving specialists in musicology, ethnomusicology, jazz performance, literary criticism, poetics, aesthetics, rhetoric , linguistics, dance, and film. The diversity of authorial training and approach makes this collection a dramatic demonstration of the on-going debates in the field. In many ways the semiotics of art is the testing ground of sign theory as a whole, and work in this subject is as vital to the interests of theoretical semioticians as to students of the arts. It is to both these interests that this volume is addressed.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model -- 3. How Do We Establish New Codes of Verisimilitude? -- 4. Intratextual Rewriting: Textuality as Language Formation -- 5. Inside Greimas's Square: Literary Characters and Cultural Constraints -- 6. Semantic Oscillation: A Universal of Artistic Expression -- 7. The Literary Artifact -- 8. Typography, Rhymes, and Linguistic Structures in Poetry -- 9. Toward a Semiotics of Music -- 10. Two Views of Musical Semiotics -- 11. Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure -- 12. The Problem of "Ethnic" Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music -- 13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method -- 14. A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music -- 15. Preliminaries to a Semiotics of Ballet -- Bibliography