02691nam 2200577Ia 450 991081904780332120240516073338.01-283-13531-097866131353151-61147-051-X(CKB)2550000000037061(EBL)716055(OCoLC)731646765(SSID)ssj0000538171(PQKBManifestationID)12242341(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000538171(PQKBWorkID)10557225(PQKB)10738751(MiAaPQ)EBC716055(Au-PeEL)EBL716055(CaPaEBR)ebr10478272(CaONFJC)MIL313531(EXLCZ)99255000000003706120100715d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJanet Frame semiotics and biosemiotics in her early fiction /Paul Matthew St. Pierre1st ed.Madison, NJ Rowman & Litterfield Publishers20111 online resource (221 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-61147-050-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexIn 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 astonishingSymbolism in literatureSemiotics and literatureSymbolism in literature.Semiotics and literature.823/.914St. Pierre Paul Matthew1625987MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819047803321Janet Frame3961798UNINA