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redefining literary semiotics
this volume marks a shift . for it reveals how literary semiotics at present has moved toward methodological pluralism . the sharp lines of division especially between the two most dominant approaches those of c.s. peirce and ferdinand de saussure have dissolved and a manifest synergy has emerged from the deepening appreciating sc . appreciation that the focal concern of literary scholarship is irreducibly heterogeneous . this heterogeneity necessitates a variety of approaches . ... the contributors to this volume highlight the communicative functions of literary texts and more controversially the representational possibilities secured by literary production . from the dust jacket p. 3 .