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The sense of form in literature and language

Title
The sense of form in literature and language / Michael Shapiro.
Author
Shapiro, Michael, 1939-
Publication
New York : St. Martin's Press, 1998.

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Additional Authors
Shapiro, Marianne.
Description
viii, 215 pages; 22 cm.
Summary
  • The Sense of Form in Literature and Language demonstrates how form in language participates in and determines the meaning of literary texts. This entails seeing verse and prose as a structure, of which the building blocks are primarily linguistic, and taking the form of these building blocks to be part of the content. Shapiro analyzes representative texts and examples from Russian, English, Romance, Japanese, and ancient Greek literature. He unifies his analyses of prose fiction and verse by treating language as the only sure repository of meaning.
  • This insightful work offers a wide range of examples from many genres and traditions and a unified approach to literature and language that derives in part from a reliance on the semiotic perspective of Peirce's whole philosophy.
Series Statement
Semaphores and signs
Uniform Title
Semaphores and signs
Subject
  • Semiotics
  • Philology, Modern
  • Philology
  • philology
  • 17.81 schools in literary theory
  • Literatursemiotik
  • Semiotik
  • Literarische Form
  • Sprache
  • Semiotiek
  • Filologie
  • Form
Note
  • Versions of parts of this book, some co-authored by the author's wife Marianne Shapiro, were previously published as parts of other works.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-210) and index.
Contents
pt. I. Prose. 1. Dostoevsky's Modes of Signifying. 2. Interpreting Bulgakov's The Master and Margarita. 3. Fragments of Meaning in Sologub's The Petty Demon -- pt. II. Poetry. 4. Sound and Meaning in Shakespeare's Sonnets. 5. Dialogism and Poetic Discourse. 6. Pushkin's Poetic Mentors. 7. The Meaning of Meter -- pt. III. Language. 8. Wimp English. 9. Boundaries.
ISBN
  • 0312213832
  • 9780312213831
LCCN
97050368
OCLC
  • ocm38112377
  • 38112377
  • SCSB-378861
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library