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| ISBN: | 9780253051080
0253051088
0253351650
9780253351654
0253203325
9780253203328
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-207) and index.
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| Summary: | "Beyond mimesis" might have been a fitting motto for this essay, which asserts that poetry works not through mimesis, the literary representation of reality, but through a semiotic process of displacement and transformation. Drawing on examples from 19th- and 20th-century French poetry (with translations), Riffaterre describes the structure of meaning in a poem . He argues for the self-sufficiency of a literary text and firmly establishes the dialectic between text and reader, between poetic and everyday discourse. The key term in his analysis is the hypogram, a preexistent word group--a cliche, stereotype, epithet , or even another literary work--from which poeticity is derived. Semiotics of Poetry is a lucidly argued and provocative book which will interest readers concerned with poetic and literary theory.
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| Other form: | Print version: Riffaterre, Michael. Semiotics of poetry. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©1978
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