TY - BOOK ID - 86076751 TI - Semiotics of Poetry PY - 1978 SN - 0253051088 PB - Indiana University Press DB - UniCat KW - Semiotics. KW - Poetry. KW - Poesie. KW - Semiotique. KW - Semeiotics KW - Semiology (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Structuralism (Literary analysis) KW - Poems KW - Poetry KW - Verses (Poetry) KW - Literature KW - Philosophy KW - Literary theory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:86076751 AB - "Beyond mimesis" might have been a fitting motto for this essay, which asserts that poetry works not through mimesis, the literary representation of reality, but through a semiotic process of displacement and transformation. Drawing on examples from 19th- and 20th-century French poetry (with translations), Riffaterre describes the structure of meaning in a poem . He argues for the self-sufficiency of a literary text and firmly establishes the dialectic between text and reader, between poetic and everyday discourse. The key term in his analysis is the hypogram, a preexistent word group—a cliche, stereotype, epithet , or even another literary work—from which poeticity is derived. Semiotics of Poetry is a lucidly argued and provocative book which will interest readers concerned with poetic and literary theory. ER -