Literary Semiotics

Semiotic literary criticism、also called literary semiotics、is the approach to literary criticism informed by the theory of signs or semiotics. Semiotics、tied closely to the structuralism pioneered by Ferdinand de Saussure、was extremely influential in the development of literary theory out of the formalist approaches of the early twentieth century.
The early forms of literary semiotics grew out of formalist approaches to literature、especially Russian formalism、and structuralist linguistics、especially the Prague school. Notable early semiotic authors included Vladimir Propp、Algirdas Julius Greimas、and Viktor Shklovsky.


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