The Sign in Music and Literature

Published by University of Texas Press 1981

The Sign in Music and Literature

Edited by: Wendy Steiner

https://doi.org/10.7560/775633

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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.

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Wendy Steiner is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania.

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1. Introduction Wendy Steiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model Benjamin Hrushovski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
3. How Do We Establish New Codes of Verisimilitude? Seymour Chatman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	26
4. Intratextual Rewriting: Textuality as Language Formation Charles F. Altman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	39
5. Inside Greimas's Square: Literary Characters and Cultural Constraints Nancy Armstrong Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
6. Semantic Oscillation: A Universal of Artistic Expression Elemér Hankiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
7. The Literary Artifact Miroslav Cervenka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
8. Typography, Rhymes, and Linguistic Structures in Poetry Nicolas Ruwet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9. Toward a Semiotics of Music Henry Orlov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	131
10. Two Views of Musical Semiotics Allan R Keiler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
11. Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure Alan M. Perlman and Daniel Greenblatt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
12. The Problem of "Ethnic" Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music John Blacking Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method David Lidov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
14. A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music Judith Becker and Alton Becker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
15. Preliminaries to a Semiotics of Ballet Marianne Shapiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229

Language: English
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 244

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Published: December 15, 2014
ISBN: 9780292769359