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Semiotics and Biosemiotics in Her Early Fiction
出版Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011
主題Literary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / Australian & Oceanian
ISBN08386423819780838642382
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=KY48cgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋"In 'Janet Frame : semiotics and biosemiotics in her early fiction', Paul Matthew St. Pierre exploits the linguistic discipline of semiotics and the neurobiological discipline of biosemiotics to propose an original and dynamic reading of the first four works of fiction by New Zealand writer Janet Frame (1924-2004) : 'The lagoon : stories' (1951), 'Owls do cry' (1957), 'Faces in the water' (1961), and 'The edge of the alphabet' (1962). Opposing the prevailing reading of Frame's early fiction as autobiographical, deriving from her medical history, he argues her books are singular evocations of her astonishing imagination. His purpose is to fix this historical record and provide an alternative model for interpreting one of the 20th century's most stylistically demanding and rewarding writers. Semiotics and biosemiotics are his means for unlocking the early fiction and her later works to a polemical analysis focusing on language, sign transmissions, writing the body, and the biosemiotic self. ... 'Janet Frame : semiotics and biosemiotics in her early fiction' is designed to appeal to the international audience of Frame readers and a specialized audience of semioticians and biosemioticians who investigate how sign transmissions function in visual verbal fields and related living systems." -- back of book.