The Sign in Music and Literature

The Sign in Music and Literature - The Dan Danciger Publication Series

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780292775633
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Imprint: University of Texas Press
Pub date:
Edition: 1st Edition
DEWEY: 700.1
DEWEY edition: 19
Language: English
Number of pages: 237
Weight: 681g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 25mm