Literary Discourse : A Semiotic-Pragmatic Approach to Literature

Table of Contents

• Contents 8
• Preface 12
• Introduction: Literature? 20
• 1 Trouble with Genres: The Instability of Categories 21
• 2 The Todorov Hypothesis 27
• 3 Exemplars and Contests 31
• PART 1 SIGN, DIALOGUE, DISCOURSE 40
• Chapter 1 From Sign to Dialogue 42
• 1.1 Representation 43
• 1.2 Immediate and Dynamical Object 43
• 1.3 Icons, Indices, and Symbols 46
• 1.4 The Uses of Iconic, Indexical, and Symbolic Signs 57
• 1.5 The Interpretants 59
• 1.6 Interpretant and Dialogue 63
• 1.7 Utterer and Addresser, Addressee and Interpreter 66
• 1.8 The Semiotic Pyramid 71
• 1.9 The Interrelations of the Immediate Interpretants 75
• 1.10 Language 80
• 1.11 From Language to Text: The Three Levels of Linguistic Communication 83
• Chapter 2 Discourse and Text 91
• 2.1 Two Concepts of Discourse: Foucault and Habermas 91
• 2.2 Discourse and Text 104
• 2.3 The Four Discourses 106
• 2.4 Literary Discourse 114
• 2.5 Literature Becoming Literature 117
• PART 2 THE FOUR DIMENSIONS OF THE LITERARY TEXT 128
• Chapter 3 Mimesis: Literature as Imitation and Model 130
• 3.1 Literature as Representation and Fiction 131
• 3.2 Signs and Universes 133
• 3.3 Ten Features of a Fictional Universe 139
• 3.4 The Relation of Fictional and Historical Universes 141
• 3.5 Similarity 163
• 3.6 Literature and the Claim to Truth 174
• 3.7 Fiction, Model, and Lifeworld 179
• Chapter 4 Self-representation and Analogy in Literature 191
• 4.1 Repetition as a Proto-aesthetic Phenomenon 193
• 4.2 Repetition, Analogy, and Poeticity 194
• 4.3 Analogy as a Cognitive and Textual Structural Principle 202
• 4.4 Analogy and Metaphor 208
• 4.5 From Repetition to Metaphor 216
• 4.6 The Self-representation of Narrative 220
• 4.7 Literature and the Existential Analogy 238
• Chapter 5 Literature as Self-expression: Subjectivity and Imagination 245
• 5.1 Self-representation and Self-expression 247
• 5.2 Subject, Subjectivity, and Self-expression 250
• 5.3 The Subject in Literature and Fiction 257
• 5.4 The Subjective Thematics of Literature 265
• 5.5 Desire and Fiction: Persinna's Confession 276
• 5.6 Language, Materiality, and Repetition in Literature 281
• 5.7 Naming and Enumeration 292
• 5.8 Plenitude, Variety, Lack 296
• 5.9 Non omnis moriar 301
• Chapter 6 The Interpreters 306
• 6.1 Literature as an Institution 307
• 6.2 The Interpellation: Plaudite 320
• 6.3 Mistrusting the Author 325
• 6.4 Vitally Important Subjects 330
• 6.5 Such stuff as dreams are made of 339
• 6.6 Reading as Iconizing 343
• 6.7 A Space of One's Own 358
• 6.8 Complexity and Ambiguity in the Communication of Literature 363
• PART 3 ON INTERPRETATION 368
• Chapter 7 Interpreting Literature 370
• 7.1 Interpretation as Semiosis 371
• 7.2 Interpretation as Prediction and Reconstruction 378
• 7.3 Reconstruction and/vs. Recontextualization 381
• 7.4 Interpretation as Abduction and Rational Reconstruction 383
• 7.5 The Practice and Predicaments of the Literary Interpretation 388
• 7.6 Interpretation by Analogy 405
• 7.7 Interpreting the Text as Enunciation and Utterance 409
• 7.8 Contextualization: Exclusivity or Integration? 417
• 7.9 Infinite (Re)interpretation? 424
• CONCLUSION 430
• Conclusion: Literature! 432
• 8.1 Literature's Heterogeneity 433
• 8.2 Other-representation and Self-representation 435
• 8.3 Eight Paradoxes of Literature 440
• 8.4 Literature! 447
• Notes 450
• Bibliography 474
• Index 492
• A 492
• B 493
• C 493
• D 494
• E 495
• F 496
• G 497
• H 497
• I 498
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• M 500
• N 501
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• Q 503
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• X 506