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Subject of Semiotics.
Title:
Subject of Semiotics.
Author:
Silverman, Kaja.
ISBN:
9780199772155
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (218 pages)
Contents:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 From Sign to Subject, A Short History -- a) FERDINAND DE SAUSSURE -- b) CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE -- c) ROLAND BARTHES -- d) JACQUES DERRIDA -- e) EMILE BENVENISTE -- 2 Primary and Secondary Processes -- a) THE EARLY TOPOGRAPHY -- b) THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE -- c) REPRESSION AND DISGUISE -- d) PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PROCESSES -- e) DESIRE AND SIGNIFICATION -- 3 Similarity and Contiguity -- a) CONDENSATION AND DISPLACEMENT -- b) PARADIGM AND SYNTAGM -- c) METAPHOR AND METONYMY -- d) FACILITATIONS -- 4 The Subject -- a) THE FREUDIAN MODEL -- b) THE LACANIAN MODEL -- i) BIRTH, TERRITORIALIZATION, AND LACK -- ii) THE IMAGINARY -- iii) SIGNIFICATION -- iv) THE SYMBOLIC -- 5 Suture -- a) DISCOURSE AND SUBJECTIVITY -- b) SUTURE: THE CINEMATIC MODEL -- c) SUTURE AND IDEOLOGY -- d) SUTURE AND SEXUAL DIFFERENCE -- 6 Re-Writing the Classic Text -- a) THE READERLY TEXT -- b) THE WRITERLY TEXT -- c) THE CODES -- i) THE SEMIC CODE -- ii) THE HERMENEUTIC CODE -- iii) THE PROAIRETIC CODE -- iv) THE SYMBOLIC CODE -- V) THE CULTURAL CODES -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography in English -- Index.
Abstract:
This provocative book undertakes a new and challenging reading of recent semiotic and structuralist theory, arguing that films, novels, and poems cannot be studied in isolation from their viewers and readers.
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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