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Fundamentals of Story Logic : Introduction to Greimassian Semiotics

Budniakiewicz, Therese [Verfasser] ; Quere, Henri

Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 1992

Birmingham, AL, USA : EBSCO Industries, Inc.

1 Online-Ressource (246 pages)

978-90-272-7728-2 ; 90-272-7728-1 ; 1-283-42444-4 ; 978-1-283-42444-8 ; 978-90-272-1946-6

Drawing largely on Propp's and Greimas' work on the narrative, this book is aimed at consolidating and extending their views through a series of concrete applications. The volume offers a critical examination of narrative structure in terms of its two basic syntactic units or sets of operations, namely the "eventual or dynamic configurations corresponding to communication or to contract or, more general, to the structure of exchange." Because of the emphasis it lays on the logical frame underlying the syntagmatic dimension of the story, the book contributes to an integrated descriptive model d.