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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789884303321

Autore

Greimas Algirdas Julien

Titolo

Maupassant : the semiotics of text : practical exercises / / Algirdas Julien Greimas ; translated by Paul Perron

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., , 1988

ISBN

1-283-42460-6

9786613424600

90-272-7864-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxxiv, 258 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Semiotic crossroads ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

MaupassantGuy de <1850-1893.>

Disciplina

843/.8

Soggetti

Semiotics and literature - France

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translation of: Maupassant : la sémiotique du texte.

Includes the unabridged text of Two friends.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxi-xxii) and index.

Nota di contenuto

MAUPASSANT The Semiotics of Text Practical Exercises; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; NOTES; REFERENCES; FOREWORD; TWO FRIENDS; SEQUENCE I. PARIS; I. TEXTUAL ORGANIZATION; 1. Spatial and Temporal Disjunctions; 1.1. Temporality; 1.2. Spatiality; 2. Actorial Disjunction; II. THE FIRST SENTENCE; 1. Thematic Roles; 2. Aspectual Structures; 3. A Logic of Approximations; III. THE SECOND SENTENCE; 1. The Discoursive Isotopy; 2. SpatialRepresentation; 3. Semantic Explicitation; 4. Axiological Investments; IV. THE THIRD SENTENCE

1. The Spatial Figure of Paris; 2. Toward the Abolition of Meaning; V. FINAL REMARKS; SEQUENCE II. FRIENDSHIP; I. THE SEQUENCE AND ITS CONTEXT; 1. Intercalation; 1.1. Disengagement; 1.2. Engagement; 2. The Linearity of Discourse; 2.1. The Cognitive Dimension and its Figurativization; 2.2. The Actorial Isotopy of Discourse; 2.3. Anaphorization and Cataphorization; II. THE INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE SEQUENCE; 1. Paradigmatic Organization; 1.1. The Demarcators; 1.2. Segmentation; 1.3. Symmetries and Dissymmetries; 2. Syntagmatic Organization; 2.1. Doing and Being; 2.2. Doing; 2.3. The Pivot

2.4. Being; III. EUPHORIC DOING; 1. The Discoursive Program; 2. The Valorization of the Program; 3. The Installation of the Dual Actant; IV.



THE FIGURATIVE UNIVERSE OF VALUES; 1. The Identification of Values; 2. The Transfigurations of the Sun; 3. Aquatic Mist; 4. Celestial Mist; 5. Solar Blood; 6. The Seeming of the Sky; 7. The Semiotic Square; V. ACTANTIAL DISTRIBUTION; SEQUENCE III. THE PROMENADE; I. THE STATUS AND THE ORGANIZATION OF THE SEQUENCE; 1. The Spatio-temporal Frame; 2. The Promenade; 3. Walking and Halting; II. THE ADVENT OF THE EVENT; 1. Temporalization and Aspectualization

2. The Focalization of the Actor-Subject; 3. Triggering of Narration; III. RECONSTITUTING THE ACTANT; 1. Recognition; 2. The Reunion; 3. The Virtualization and the Actualization of Contents; 4. The Institution of Illusion; IV. THE COMPETENCE OF THE SUBJECT; 1. The Actualization of Wanting-to-do; 2. An Illusory Being-able-to-do; 3. The Tricksters; 4. The Two Figures of the Trickster; 5. The Non-Sender; 6. The Act; SEQUENCE IV. THE QUEST; I. PROVISIONAL SEGMENTATION; II. FAMILIAR SPACE; 1. The Pass; 2. The Spatial Organization of the Narrative; 2.1. The Crossing; 2.2. The Space of Folktale

2.3. Spatial Engagement and Disengagement; 2.4. Uttered Space; III. TOPICAL SPACE; 1. New Segmentation; 2. The Interpretive Halt; 2.1. The Exploration of Topical Space; 2.2. Interpretive Doing; 2.2.1. Variations of the Isotopies; 2.2.2. The Fiduciary Relation; 2.2.3. The Actualization of the Antactant; 2.3. The Social Anti-sender; 2.4. The Qualifying Test; 2.4.1. Anxiety; 2.4.2. Cheeky Humor; 2.4.3. Hesitation; 3. Persuasive Displacement; 3.1. The Pragmatic Program; 3.2. The Cognitive Program; SEQUENCE V. PEACE; I. PROBLEMS OF SEGMENTATION; II. THE CONSTRUCTION OF COGNITIVE SPACE; 1. The Quest for Solitude

Sommario/riassunto

Translated by Paul Perron; Maupassant's short story, "Two Friends", is examined in order to test methodological tools and to hone them for their application in the analysis of narrative discourse, starting from the oral tale (Propp) and ending with the written tale instituted as literary genre. Complex procedures of textual production are identified: among which entire sequences as well as the "evenemential" level of narrative fade away in favor of its cognitive dimension. This semiotic investigation is accompanied by a challenge to certain conventions of literary criticism: dialogue, the locus



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910986390703321

Titolo

Modernité et académies scientifiques européennes / sous la direction de Pierre Girard, Christian Leduc, Mitia Rioux-Beaulne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Paris, : Classiques Garnier, 2023

ISBN

9782406142324

Descrizione fisica

240 p. ; 22 cm

Collana

Constitution de la modernité ; 36

Locazione

FLFBC

Collocazione

191 GIRP 01

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia