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Comparative Literature (2015) 67 (1): 37–44.
Published: 01 March 2015
...Michael Filimowicz “Sysemics and Semiotic Informatics” offers a close reading of Derrida's use of Norbert Weiner's thought. Cybernetics is seen as a particular moment of resistance for deconstruction, as it is the encounter between a discourse of general systems, which includes even sign systems...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (4): 420–437.
Published: 01 December 2014
...Christoph Prang Umberto Eco's novel The Name of the Rose provides a distinctive example of what has been called semiomimesis : the creative appropriation and exploitation of narrative moments within semiotic theory for the production of art. This essay defines what constitutes this type of art...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (2): 218–234.
Published: 01 June 2016
... reading of “Empty Words” that locates and examines the pre-semiotic, pre-categorical dimensions of the state that occurs when these expectations are thrown into disarray. To examine the affective dynamic in Cage's cultivation of polysemy and indeterminacy, I draw on Brian Massumi's categorization...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (1): 22–40.
Published: 01 January 2010
..., and Jean-Paul Sartre for examples of this defiance. Yet Aragon himself looked to Bertran de Born as a poet in revolt, and the poetic form remains a better venue for the expression of what Kristeva terms the semiotic—that is, the rhythmic bodily forces that resist reduction to the symbolic. Bertran...
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Comparative Literature (2013) 65 (1): 26–35.
Published: 01 March 2013
... to conceive of a perfect man-made language, Chinese seemed a likely model. However, Leibniz's dream of a Universal Character relied on a combination of competing semiotic and systemic requirements that only the misguided view of sinographs and hexagrams as an integral part of one Chinese script system could...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 339–362.
Published: 01 September 2000
...VLADIMIR E. ALEXANDROV University of Oregon 2000 Alexandrov, Vladimir E. “Alterity, Hermeneutic Indices, and the Limits of Interpretation.” Elementa: Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics 4 . 2 ( 1998 ): 97 -120. Bakhtin, Mikhail. “Discourse in the Novel...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 230–232.
Published: 01 June 2012
... of the Chinese Semiotic Tradition.” Semiotica 170 . 1/4 ( 2008 ): 169 – 85 . Print . ———. From Historicity to Fictionality: The Chinese Poetics of Narrative . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1994 . Print . Pan Daan . The Lyrical Resonance between Chinese Poets and Painters: The Tradition...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 232–235.
Published: 01 June 2012
... PARALLELS, INTERACTIONS, AND ILLUMINATIONS: TRAVERSING CHINESE AND WESTERN THEORIES OF THE SIGN. By Ersu Ding. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 210 p. English-language studies of Chinese culture and literature from a semiotic perspec- tive are rare. It is even harder to find a book-length...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 235–236.
Published: 01 June 2012
... PARALLELS, INTERACTIONS, AND ILLUMINATIONS: TRAVERSING CHINESE AND WESTERN THEORIES OF THE SIGN. By Ersu Ding. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 210 p. English-language studies of Chinese culture and literature from a semiotic perspec- tive are rare. It is even harder to find a book-length...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (2): 237–239.
Published: 01 June 2012
..., AND ILLUMINATIONS: TRAVERSING CHINESE AND WESTERN THEORIES OF THE SIGN. By Ersu Ding. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010. 210 p. English-language studies of Chinese culture and literature from a semiotic perspec- tive are rare. It is even harder to find a book-length monograph that tackles both Chi...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 256–259.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with a lively illustra- tion of the significance of the different semiotic processes of the Western travel writer from Théophile Gautier and Victor Segalen to Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, and Jean Baudrillard, who, despite their differences, all reveal a desire to postpone the interpreta- tion...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 259–261.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with a lively illustra- tion of the significance of the different semiotic processes of the Western travel writer from Théophile Gautier and Victor Segalen to Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, and Jean Baudrillard, who, despite their differences, all reveal a desire to postpone the interpreta- tion...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 261–263.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with a lively illustra- tion of the significance of the different semiotic processes of the Western travel writer from Théophile Gautier and Victor Segalen to Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, and Jean Baudrillard, who, despite their differences, all reveal a desire to postpone the interpreta- tion...
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Comparative Literature (2006) 58 (3): 263–265.
Published: 01 June 2006
... with a lively illustra- tion of the significance of the different semiotic processes of the Western travel writer from Théophile Gautier and Victor Segalen to Roland Barthes, Michel Butor, and Jean Baudrillard, who, despite their differences, all reveal a desire to postpone the interpreta- tion...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (3): 277–300.
Published: 01 September 2014
... . Ed. Easterling P.E. Cartledge Paul . Cambridge : Cambridge UP , 1997 . 36 – 53 . Print . Elias Norbert . The Court Society . Trans. Jephcott Edmund . Oxford : Basil Blackwell , 1983 . Print . Fischer-Lichte Erika . The Semiotics of Theater . Trans...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (1): 99–118.
Published: 01 March 2022
... form, entirely shorn of its first movement, the section that occupies itself with semiotics and linguistics” (144). A more complete version also appeared in a special quadruple issue of the art magazine Marcatrè (no. 19–22). P. Adams Sitney notes that “the paragraphs devoted to his primary film...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (4): 293–319.
Published: 01 September 2003
... different perspec- tive and corpus. The aesthetic variations on the word-image conflict—my subject here—go back to Lessing’s semiotic distinctions and their analysis by Meir Stern- berg. Challenging the encounters of contemporary theory with the Laocoon, Sternberg re-contextualizes...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (2): 97–118.
Published: 01 March 2000
... Verlag, 1972 . Kristeva, Julia. Desire in Language: A Semiotic Approach to Literature and Art . Ed. Leon Roudiez. Trans. Thomas Gora, Alice Jardine, and Leon Roudiez. New York: Columbia University Press, 1980 . Lachmann, Renate. “Dialogizität und poetische Sprache.” Dialogizität . Ed. Renate...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 269–290.
Published: 01 September 2000
... of the symbol as “lebendig-augenblickliche Offenbarung des Unerforschlichen” (“dynamic-momentary revelation of the in- scrutable”; Eichhorn 157). This definition, as Todorov has argued, articulates a fun- damentally Romantic semiotic ideal, according to which the sign—as symbol— locates every particular...
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Comparative Literature (2020) 72 (4): 361–376.
Published: 01 December 2020
... naturalized for the little girl. As this scene continues, however, the narration takes a peculiar momentary detour from her lesson in the semiotics of language, to the perceptual semiotics of Shamshad’s body. As the narrator describes the reading lesson, Chughtai’s prose suddenly zooms in on a set of strange...