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121. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 3
Elizabeth C. Hirschman Legends in Our Own Time: How Motion Pictures and Television Shows Fulfill the Functions of Myth
122. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 3
Eduardo Neiva An Argument Against the Conventionalist Interpretation of Images
123. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Deborah Eicher-Catt A Communicology of Female/Feminine Embodiment: The Case of Non-Custodial Motherhood
124. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Susan Petrilli Orcid-ID A Life for the Signs of Life: “Semiotic Impollination” through the Global Semiosphere by the Master of Signs, Thoams A. Sebeok
125. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Isaac E. Catt Signs of Disembodiment in Racial Profiling: Semiotic Determinism Versus Carlo Sini’s Phenomenological Semiotics
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Jacqueline M. Martinez Weight Room Semiotics: Female Bodies Enacting Masculine Codes
127. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Jeff Bernard The Spiritus Rector of Our Scientific Community
128. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
J. Kole Kleeman Victims and the Media: A Semiotic Analysis of Hate Crime Reporting and the Media
129. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Jules J. Wanderer Hobo Signs: Embodied Metaphors and Metonymies
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Susan Rasmussen “In the Shadows of Great Sheltering Trees (Songs)”: Women’s Spirit Possession Songs and Sense of Embodied Place in the Tuareg Poetic Imagination
131. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Thomas D. Craig Living between the Bedrock of Disability and the Hard Place of Social Identity
132. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 17 > Issue: 4
Maureen Connolly Bikini Bytes: A Communicology of Front Stage and Back Stage Performances at Competitive Body-Building Events
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Claudette Kemper Columbus Moutains That Move: The Trave(i)ls of Wallallo of Huarochiri and Elsewhere in the Region Now Known as Peru
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Myrdene Anderson Thomas Albert Sebeok (9 November 1920 — 21 December 2001): Celebrating Semiotic’s Pioneer, Pathfinder, Mentor, Midwife, Pied Piper, King Midas, Gold Standard, Magician, Troubador, Trickster, Friend, “Tom”
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Patricia A. Marek Marked for Life in a Culture of Death: Movement Communication in Blue Sky
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Marja-Liisa Honkasalo Pain, Self, and the Body
137. The American Journal of Semiotics: Volume > 18 > Issue: 1/4
Clarisse Zimra Can the Empire Really Write Back: Maximin’s Unbounded Narrative
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This essay examines the ways in which Daniel Maximin, a Guadeloupean writer, tackles the work of history and memory that constitutes the ethical imperative of postcolonial writers in the African diaspora. From Proust to Joyce, Camus to Blanchot, Maximin “riffs” on the modernist canon to produce a truly hybrid hermeneutics. In three inter-connected works that share characters and circumstances and owe much to Eco’s concept of the “open work”, Maximin crafts one giant unbounded, untelelogical self-referential narrative that shall heal the diasporic obsession with the all too real fractures of colonial history.
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Sid Sondergard Mapping the Lovecraft Idiolect: Iterative Structures and Autosemiotization as Reading Strategies
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Towards reassessing and reconciling some of the conflicted readings of H. P. Lovecraft’s writings, Sondergard proposes that the author be read through the lens of his own idiolect rather than through interpretive systems constructed from referents external to Lovecraft’s often xenophobically self-referential perceptions. Modeling a semiotic system extrapolated from analysis of Lovecraft’s canon as well as of his life, the essay proceeds to employ it to reexamine “Herbert West—Reanimator,” a story that has been cited as evidence of the author’s racism.
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Julia Kristeva Thinking about Literary Thought
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To these rather restrained opinions, one must add the unremitting efforts of the media but also of academia—these powers and institutions are decidedly united—who aim to ridicule and discredit for ever more literary theory’s encroachment, or attemptedencroachment, of its authority on literature. It may seem paradoxical that such a sparing, abstract, or even, as they say, insignificant activity should elicit such an . . . eroticization. Why so much passion for such an elusive object? We must look back to the beginningsof theoretical thought in the area of arts and literature, in order to attempt to uncover the reasons for this apparent anomaly.
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Ibrahim Taha Heroism In Literature: A Semiotic Model
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The semiotic model that disregards the normative context represented by the protagonist examines how we can distinguish the three conceptions of heroism, namely hero, semi-hero, and anti-hero. What are the methodological criteria whereby we can follow the protagonist in the text from beginning to end? To answer them, this article tries to present a model made up of five stages/criteria which constitute a semiotic model by means of which the connection to heroism can be determined. These are: (1) motivation, (2) will, (3) ability, (4) execution, and (5) outcome. These stages can be logically classified into three categories: 1) Pre-action (the first three stages), 2) Action (the fourth stage), 3) Post-action (the fifth stage). The model proposed here suits all types of narrative and drama and all performance and film production arts.