Janet Frame : Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction.
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Janet Frame : Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction.
Author:
Pierre, St. Matthew Paul.
ISBN:
9781611470512
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (211 pages)
Contents:
JANET FRAME -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Writing the Body in the Body of Writing of Janet Frame -- 1. Signs, Signatories, Semiotics in The Lagoon -- 2. The Spatialization of Sound-Image Signs in Owls Do Cry -- 3. A Biosemiotics of Facial Displays in Faces in the Water -- 4. The Biosemiotic Self as Body in The Edge of the Alphabet -- 5. Frame's Apprenticeship to Journeyman and Master Writer -- Glossary -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
In Janet Frame: Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction, Paul Matthew St. Pierre exploits the linguistic discipline of semiotics and the neurobiological discipline of biosemiotics to propose an original and dynamic reading of the first four works of fiction by New Zealand writer Janet Frame (1924-2004): The Lagoon: Stories (1951), Owls Do Cry (1957), Faces in the Water (1961), and The Edge of the Alphabet (1962). Opposing the prevailing reading of Frame's early fiction as autobiographical, deriving from her medical history, he argues her books are singular evocations of her astonishing imagination.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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