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,...

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