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EUR 35,- ISBN 978-3-86057-094-4 Reihe: Probleme der Semiotik |
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Confusion still reigns concerning the nature of the literary object and the scientific status of the science of literature. This confusion is due to the semiotics dominating most of the current approaches to literature. In Why Literature? it is argued that mainstream semiotics, both in its Peircean and its (post)structuralist version, offers a theory of form, not a theory of semiosis. Following this critical analysis, the author presents an anthropological theory of semiosis. He focusses on the form problems which generate the semiotic process, and on the logic of the - limited - number of basic semiotic strategies available. It is argued that literature is a historical instantiation of one semiotic strategy (the artistic or mimetic) which accounts for its specific syntacticosemantic structure as well as for its historical evolution. The specificity of literary semiosis is then analyzed on the levels of the literary description, intertextuality and, more in detail, literary narration. In the last chapter, the book offers a model in which the three levels of analysis (of the singular text, of the historical genre, and of the (anthropo)logic of literature) are related to the three dimensions of the semiotic reality (syntax, semantics, pragmatics). The model allows for the integration, in a general science of literature, of various seemingly conflicting theoretical and methodological approaches. |
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