Overview
- Discusses literary criticism as a postmodern science as defined by Jean-Francois Lyotard
- Challenges the scientific basis of traditional binary oppositions: Nature-Culture; Organism-Environment; Mind-Matter; Nature-Text; Science-Humanities; Self-Other; Subject-Object; and Human-Animal
- A manifesto for sustainable thinking, environmental, and social justice based on a Peircean semiotic worldview
Part of the book series: Biosemiotics (BSEM, volume 24)
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About this book
This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, “nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature” (Timo Maran); biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi’s Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran’s work on “modeling the environment in literature,” Edwina Taborsky’s writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer’s formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume.
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Book Title: Biosemiotic Literary Criticism
Book Subtitle: Genesis and Prospectus
Authors: W. John Coletta
Series Title: Biosemiotics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72495-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72494-8Published: 25 August 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-72497-9Published: 26 August 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-72495-5Published: 24 August 2021
Series ISSN: 1875-4651
Series E-ISSN: 1875-466X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 271
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 16 illustrations in colour
Topics: Critical Theory, Semiotics, Environmental and Sustainability Education, Information Systems and Communication Service, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary