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The subject of semiotics

Author: Kaja Silverman
Publisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"[This book] is intended as a methodological guide to a group of semiotic writings frequently taught in advanced undergraduate courses in North America and Britain, writings that are for the most part available in English. It should therefore be viewed as a supplementary and explanatory text rather than as one that precedes the reading of any primary semiotic materials." -- from Preface.
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Genre/Form: Einführung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Kaja Silverman
ISBN: 0195031776 9780195031775 0195031784 : 9780195031782
OCLC Number: 8345645
Description: xii, 304 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: From sign to subject, a short history: Ferdinand De Saussure --
Charles Sander Peirce --
Roland Barthes --
Jacques Derrida --
Emile Benveniste --
Primary and secondary processes: Early topography --
Pleasure principle --
Repression and disguise --
Primary and secondary processes --
Desire and signification --
Similarity and contiguity: Condensation and displacement --
Paradigm and syntagm --
Metaphor and metonymy --
facilitations --
Subject: Freudian model --
Lacanian model: Birth, territorialization, and lack --
Imaginary --
Signification --
Symbolic --
Suture: Discourse and subjectivity --
Suture, the cinematic model --
suture and ideology --
Suture and sexual differences --
Re-writing the classic text: Readerly text --
Writerly text --
Codes: Semic code --
Hermeneutic code --
Proairetic code --
Symbolic code --
Cultural codes.
Responsibility: Kaja Silverman.

Abstract:

"[This book] is intended as a methodological guide to a group of semiotic writings frequently taught in advanced undergraduate courses in North America and Britain, writings that are for the most part available in English. It should therefore be viewed as a supplementary and explanatory text rather than as one that precedes the reading of any primary semiotic materials." -- from Preface.

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