| A Semiotic Analysis of Guillaume Apollinaire's Mythology in Alcools Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), Cornelius, Nathalie G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820428345 ISBN-13: 9780820428345 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $56.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: December 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General - Language Arts & Disciplines - Literary Criticism | European - French |
| Dewey: 841.912 |
| LCCN: 95015432 |
| Series: Asian Thought and Culture |
| Physical Information: 190 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Guillaume Apollinaire's "Alcools" appears to be a haphazard accumulation of allusions, myths and neologisms. Biographically and historically oriented attempts to elucidate a structure in this work have usually been frustrated. The semiotic approach to myth and poetry developed in this book shows that the key lies in the poetic function of mythology. In a close analysis of several poems, poetic figures are shown to be grafted upon the primary metaphors in the poems' titles, which in turn derive from conventional linguistic expressions. Proposed here is a new approach to which mythification and remythification generate patterns of multiple meanings which separate literature from common message-based discourse. |