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• catalog abstract "In this innovative examination of works by Poe, Melville, Twain, Nabokov, Barth, and Pynchon, Herbert F. Smith establishes an aesthetic theory that allows for fresh readings of six problematic texts. He explores how the texts came to be written and what semiotic processes are involved in their creation, and in so doing he opens the way for new theoretical speculation. Texts that do no more than produce data are essentially two dimensional. Texts that interest as texts have a third dimension. Almost all literary criticism takes place within these three dimensions. For Smith, texts that compel the reader to go beyond a two- or three-dimensional analysis are the most interesting. The technique he develops for reading these works of literature is based on the idea of hyperdimensionality, a metaphor he borrows, along with catastrophe and chaos, from science. The works he examines are seen as loci for meaning in which numerous directions and coordinates function simultaneously. Beginning with Roman Jakobson, Smith examines speculations about the metaphor/metonymy dichotomy, invoking along the way Umberto Eco and David Lodge. He quarrels with the notion that metaphor and metonymy are polar, and proposes that the dichotomy be visualized as multi-dimensional, to reflect their complex relationship. As he develops his technique for reading metafiction, he sheds light on the theories of critics as diverse as Derrida, Barthes, and Frye. The tone is exploratory, even playful, engaging the reader in a free play of ideas.".
• catalog contributor b6442802.
• catalog created "1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1994.".
• catalog description "Beginning with Roman Jakobson, Smith examines speculations about the metaphor/metonymy dichotomy, invoking along the way Umberto Eco and David Lodge. He quarrels with the notion that metaphor and metonymy are polar, and proposes that the dichotomy be visualized as multi-dimensional, to reflect their complex relationship. As he develops his technique for reading metafiction, he sheds light on the theories of critics as diverse as Derrida, Barthes, and Frye. The tone is exploratory, even playful, engaging the reader in a free play of ideas.".
• catalog description "In this innovative examination of works by Poe, Melville, Twain, Nabokov, Barth, and Pynchon, Herbert F. Smith establishes an aesthetic theory that allows for fresh readings of six problematic texts. He explores how the texts came to be written and what semiotic processes are involved in their creation, and in so doing he opens the way for new theoretical speculation.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Texts that do no more than produce data are essentially two dimensional. Texts that interest as texts have a third dimension. Almost all literary criticism takes place within these three dimensions. For Smith, texts that compel the reader to go beyond a two- or three-dimensional analysis are the most interesting. The technique he develops for reading these works of literature is based on the idea of hyperdimensionality, a metaphor he borrows, along with catastrophe and chaos, from science. The works he examines are seen as loci for meaning in which numerous directions and coordinates function simultaneously.".
• catalog description "pt. 1. A Theory of Hyperdimensional Isomorphisms. 1. Topological Isomorphisms in Semiotic Analysis. 2. Metaphor and Metonymy Revisited. 3. Towards an Integrated Theory of Style -- pt. 2. Three Nineteenth-Century Texts. 4. Arthur Gordon Pym in Five Barthesian Dimensions. 5. The Confidence-Man: An Epimenidean View. 6. Raising the Consciousness of A Connecticut Yankee -- pt. 3. Three Postmodern Texts. 7. The Lemniscate Topology of Pale Fire. 8. [[null] superscript n]/Chaos = Chimera, the Novel. 9. Integrating Chaos: The Crying of Lot 49.".
• catalog extent "xvi, 189 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Locus of meaning.".
• catalog identifier "080205711X".
• catalog isFormatOf "Locus of meaning.".
• catalog isPartOf "Theory/culture series.".
• catalog isPartOf "Theory/culture".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press,".
• catalog relation "Locus of meaning.".
• catalog spatial "United States.".
• catalog subject "801/.953 20".
• catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 19th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc.".
• catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "Meaning (Philosophy) in literature.".
• catalog subject "PS374.M42 S63 1994".
• catalog subject "Semiotics and literature United States.".
• catalog subject "Structuralism (Literary analysis)".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. 1. A Theory of Hyperdimensional Isomorphisms. 1. Topological Isomorphisms in Semiotic Analysis. 2. Metaphor and Metonymy Revisited. 3. Towards an Integrated Theory of Style -- pt. 2. Three Nineteenth-Century Texts. 4. Arthur Gordon Pym in Five Barthesian Dimensions. 5. The Confidence-Man: An Epimenidean View. 6. Raising the Consciousness of A Connecticut Yankee -- pt. 3. Three Postmodern Texts. 7. The Lemniscate Topology of Pale Fire. 8. [[null] superscript n]/Chaos = Chimera, the Novel. 9. Integrating Chaos: The Crying of Lot 49.".
• catalog title "The locus of meaning : six hyperdimensional fictions / Herbert F. Smith.".
• catalog type "text".