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Semiology and Rhetoric by Jhon is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document discusses the relationship between semiology (the study of signs and sign systems) and rhetoric. It notes that formalist literary criticism tends to focus intensely on techniques but is often seen as reductive. While formalism provides new analytic powers, it is never fully accepted without seeming to reduce literary meaning. The document questions the common metaphor that views literature as containing an internal meaning separated from an external referent by the formal features of the text.
- Author
- Jhon
- Language
- EN