Semiotics of Poetry / Michael Riffaterre.
"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 (wi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1978. ©1978. |
| Year of Publication: | 1978 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in semiotics
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource x, 213 pages.) |
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| 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. |
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| ISBN: | 0253051088 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Michael Riffaterre. |