The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction by Jonathan D. Culler

The Pursuit of Signs: Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction

Jonathan D. Culler

272 pages first pub 1981 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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The primary task of literary theory, Jonathan Culler asserts in the new edition of his classic in this field, is not to illuminate individual literary works but to explain the system of literary signification--the rules and conventions that determ...

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