LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory

Paper · Semantic Scholar

The present study, titled “Changing Concepts of Literature and Criticism: From Plato’s Mimetic Theory to Leavis’s Moral Criticism,” explores the historical development of literary criticism from classical Greek philosophy to modern moral criticism. Literature and literary criticism have continuously evolved according to changing philosophical, cultural, and intellectual traditions. The study primarily examines Plato…

Reference · Wikidata

approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics

Encyclopedia · Wikipedia

Semiotic literary criticism, also called literary semiotics, is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics, tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure, was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century.

Book · DOAB

When Jean Genet, the enfant terrible of the French theater, died on April 15, 1986, he left a rich and controversial literary legacy. Genet, a homosexual and ex-convict, wrote about events and in a language that could ruffle the complacency of the most sophisticated reader. His work can be seen as a struggle of the social outcast to be heard from beyond the borders of the dominant, heterosexual culture. This challen…

Full text · Open Library

Culler offers insights into theories about the nature of language and meaning, looks at whether literature is a form of self-expression or a method of appeal to an audience, and outlines the ideas behind deconstruction and semiotics.

Image · DPLA

Issue 61.1 of the Review for Religious, 2002.