| From the Critic's Workbench: Essays in Literature and Semiotics Contributor(s): Rauch, Irmengard (Editor), Shapiro, Marianne (Author), Shapiro, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820479152 ISBN-13: 9780820479156 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $142.60 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: 809 |
| LCCN: 2005007980 |
| Series: Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics, |
| Physical Information: 522 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book comprises twenty-two chapters, including previously unpublished material, written over the entire span of Marianne Shapiro's working life. Its opening section on the European heritage begins with a long essay on the Aeneid that breaks new interpretative ground by examining the epic from the perspective of Virgil's implicit prescriptions for leaders and leadership. Chapters on Dante add to the store of knowledge on his minor works as well as the Comedy, and are followed by close readings of Petrarch and Proven al poetry. The American and comparative literature section features an analysis of John Ashbery's New Spirit and a page-by-page commentary on Nabokov's Lolita and Pnin. The book is rounded out by three chapters in a semiotics section, the highlight of which is an analysis of the Christian Trinity based on a deep understanding of Peirce's sign theory. |