Meaning and textuality

by Rastier, François

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Title Statements

Full title :Meaning and textuality / François Rastier ; translated by Frank Collins and Paul Perron.

Summary

Historically there has been a wide gulf between European and Anglo/American thought on the philosophy of language, in part because it is often difficult to find important European works in English translation. Meaning and Textuality represents key elements of the ground-breaking new theory on signs and discourse that has come out of Europe in the last few decades. Meaning and Textuality is an investigation into methods useful to the analysis of language and literature. Rastier seeks ways to better understand signs, with emphasis on their relation to action and culture. He proposes a theoretical framework for the semantic description and typology of texts. Towards this end he establishes a critical debate among various streams of research before arriving at a synthesis of literary semiotics, thematics, and linguistic semantics. The author sees this synthesis as a means by which to reconcile the rigour of linguistic analysis with the complexity of literary interpretation. In the later portion of the book he tests his propositions in a series of detailed investigations of French literary texts by Zola, Maupassant, Mallarmé, Apollinaire, and Jodelle. Each study examines a new problem such as narrative ambiguity or referential impression.This book will be welcomed by scholars in any discipline concerned with discourse analysis and the close reading of texts.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of Toronto Press
Place of Publication:Toronto [Ont.]
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1997.

Notes

Translation of: Sens et textualité.

Includes indexes.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xvi, 281 pages

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781442664838, 1442664835
oclc:ocn780269465
LC Classification:P325
Dewey Decimal:401/.43

Part 1: Interpretative Semantics and Forms of Textuality -- 1. On the 'Objectivity' of Meaning -- 2. Difficulties of Avant-Garde Hermeneutics -- 3. Situations of Interpretation and Typology of Texts -- 4. Thematics -- 5. Dialectics -- 6. Dialogics -- 7. Tactics -- 8. The Interaction of the Semantic Components -- Part 2: Essays in Textual Semantics -- 9. Moon, Diana, Hecate -- 10. Goddamn! They Sure Made Short Work of the Blanquette of Veal! -- 11. Daddy Hen -- 12. The White Care of Our [Sail-]Cloth -- 13. Referential Impression or The Sun and the Shepherdess.