Biosemiotic literary criticism 1st ed.

Author

• Coletta, W. John

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030724955

Series

Biosemiotics 24

Subject(s)

• CRITICAL THEORY
• SEMIOTICS

Notes

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Abstract

This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi’s Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran’s work on “modeling the environment in literature,” Edwina Taborsky’s writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer’s formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xiii, 271 p.)

Dimension

-

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Genesis of Biosemiotic Literary Criticism: How the Future "Presents" the Past --
Chapter 2. Modeling Environments in Literature and Literary Criticism --
Chapter 3. Evolutionary Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism --
Chapter 4. Communicative Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism --
Chapter 5. Hierarchical Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism --
Chapter 6. Significational Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism --
Chapter 7. Analogical Approaches to Biosemiotic Literary Criticism --
Chapter 8. Epilogue: The Poet as Scientist.

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