Figuration in verbal art
1988, First Edition. Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #405094
Physical description; xvi, 286 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-286). Contents; pt. I. Theoretical Preliminaries: The status of irony ; The structure of figures ; Style as figuration ; The peotic function -- pt. II. Literary Analysis n a Tropological Perspective: Word-weaving in medieval romance lyric ; A figural perspective on Dante's vita nuova ; Pushkin's modus significandi ; The metonymic structure of Pushkin's "little tragedies" ; Gogol's tropological vision ; Gogol and Dante -- pt. III. Figuration in Popular Culture: The figurality of Archie Bunker ; Semiosis in myth: the Slavic witch, Baba-Jaga. Subjects; Figures of speech. Criticism. Poetry. Deconstruction. Semiotics and literature.
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