The Sign in Music and Literature Steiner Paperback John Wiley & Sons

The Sign in Music and LiteratureAuthor(s): Wendy Steiner\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Texas Press, United States\nImprint: University of Texas Press\nISBN-13: 9780292769342, 978-0292769342\nSynopsis\nThe notion of semiotics as a universal language that can encompass any object of perception makes it the focus of a revolutionary field of inquiry, the semiotics of art. This volume represents a unique gathering of semiotic approaches to art: from Saussurian linguistics to transformational grammar, from Prague School aesthetics to Peircean pragmatism, from structuralism to poststructuralism. \n\n Though concerned specifically with the semiotics of music and literature, the essays reveal the breadth of semiotics interdisciplinary appeal, involving specialists in musicology, ethnomusicology, jazz performance, literary criticism, poetics, aesthetics, rhetoric , linguistics, dance, and film. The diversity of authorial training and approach makes this collection a dramatic dem.