Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction xi
5. Part One. The Fate of Meaning in Structuralist Literary Theory
6. One. Beginning With Saussure: The Sentence-Text Analogy 3
7. Two. The Reader/Text as Indeterminate 19
8. Three. Meaning Endlessly Deferred 32
9. Part Two. Meaning is a Triadic Relation
10. Four. Starting Over: Pence's Theory of Signs 53
11. Five. Art: Meaning as a Sign of Possibility 73
12. Six. Criticism: Meaning as a Sign of Fact 91
13. Seven. Theory: Meaning as a Sign of Reason 122
14. Index 143