The Fate of Meaning : : Charles Peirce, Structuralism, and Literature / / John K. Sheriff.
This succinct and lucid study examines the thought of the philosopher Charles Peirce as it applies to literary theory and shows that his concept of the sign can give us a fresh understanding of literary art and criticism. John Sheriff analyzes the treatment of determinate meaning and contends that a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1989 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. The Fate of Meaning in Structuralist Literary Theory
- One. Beginning With Saussure: The Sentence-Text Analogy
- Two. The Reader/Text as Indeterminate
- Three. Meaning Endlessly Deferred
- Part Two. Meaning is a Triadic Relation
- Four. Starting Over: Pence's Theory of Signs
- Five. Art: Meaning as a Sign of Possibility
- Six. Criticism: Meaning as a Sign of Fact
- Seven. Theory: Meaning as a Sign of Reason
- Index