A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909

A Semiotic Analysis of the Short Stories of Leonid Andreev, 1900-1909
ISBN-10
0947623353
ISBN-13
9780947623357
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
276
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
MHRA
Authors
Stephen Hutchings, Patrick Hutchings

Description

This book applies the techniques of semiotic analysis to a selection of short stories by Leonid Andreev in an attempt to offer one answer to the problems of categorizing Andreev's unique art and placing it within a literary-evolutionary perspective. Drawing on a range of literary theory from early Russian Formalism onwards, the study proceeds from one level to another according to a principle of 'degree of abstraction', so that each level constitutes firstly an independent account of Andreev's texts in itself, and secondly one stage in an overall analysis.

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