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Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism : The Spanish Golden Age

By Antonio Gomez-Moriana

Book information

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Year
1993
ISBN
9780816684328, 9780816620722
LCC
PQ6066 -- .G66 1993eb
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
11 MB (11102135 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
189\189
Time added
2023-08-10 23:49:10
1500-1700 -- History and criticism. ; Discourse anLiterary.; LAN015000; LIT004280; LIT006000Spanish literature -- Classical period

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.

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