Prelim pages

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction vii
4. I. Narrative grammar, actions and passions
5. Greimas’s narrative grammar 3
6. Prolegomena to a theory of action 33
7. Toward an anthropomorphic narrative topos 61
8. II. Toward discourse
9. Pragmatics and semiotics 91
10. Pragmatics and semiotics 95
11. Narrativity and discursivity 105
12. Prolegomena to modal analysis 141
13. The esthetic gaze 151
14. III. Deep structures and problems of formalization
15. Catastrophe theory and semio-narrative grammar 177
16. Cyclical structures in semiotics 213
17. Four problems of deep semiotics 235