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Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism: The Spanish Golden Age
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism: The Spanish Golden Age
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Antonio Gomez-Moriana
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Physical Properties |
Format:Paperback / softback | Pages:192 | Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 152 |
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Category/Genre | Literary studies - general |
ISBN/Barcode |
9780816620739
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Classifications | Dewey:860.9 |
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Audience | Undergraduate | Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly | Professional & Vocational | |
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
University of Minnesota Press
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Imprint |
University of Minnesota Press
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Publication Date |
12 May 1993 |
Publication Country |
United States
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Description
In Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism, Antonio Gomez-Moriana brilliantly applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina's Don Juan play, and Columbus's Diary. Gomez-Moriana begins by affirming that Saussure had originally intended semiology as a study of signs in social life before proceeding to focus on the study of system and structure. Gomez-Moriana argues that the structuralists subsequently misread Saussure and focused on the synchrony of signs abstacted from the literary text rather than on the historical and social developments represented by philology, the field of study that sheds light on cultural history. In Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism, Gomez-Moriana fuses history and semiotics. "Gomez-Moriana's skillful handling of literary theory is matched by his thorough scholarship and excellent knowledge of history....Whether he is dealing with Foucault to discuss, for example, the changing criteria of verisimilitude in Occidental literary discourse, or with Greimas's 'semantic expansion principle,' or with Lejeune's notion of the autobiographical pact, or, for that matter, with any other issue of importance to his analysis of a specific text, it is clear that Gomez-Moriana has done his homework." Nicholas Spadaccini, University of Minnesota
Author Biography
Antonio Gomez-Moriana is professor of comparative literature at the University of Montreal and chair of Spanish and Latin American Studies at Simon Fraser University. He has published several books and articles in Spanish, German, English, and French on philology and social change, literary history, semiotics, and discourse analysis.
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