The contributions of Peirce's philosophical disciplines to literary studies
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Lucia Santaella
Her research interests include cognitive semiotics and technological aesthetics. Her major publications include
Matrizes da linguagem e pensamento: Sonora, visual, verbal (2001);Semiótica aplicada (2002); andCulturas e Artes do Pós-Humano (2003).
Abstract
It is well-known that Peirce developed a broad classification of the sciences, which are interconnected by hierarchically interdependent and non-linear relations. The higher the level of a science in the hierarchy, the more abstract that science is and, as such, it provides the less abstract sciences with general concepts and principles. At the same time, the empirical sciences provide the abstract ones with new problems and questions. At the core of Peirce's classification is his architecture of philosophical disciplines. It was his endeavor that these disciplines should display the general concepts and principles for all the idioscopic or special sciences. Considering that literary studies can be understood as an idioscopic science, the aim of this paper is to discuss the place of literature in Peirce's classificatory diagram and to suggest the possible relations that literary studies may entertain with the philosophical disciplines, that is, phenomenology, the normative sciences, and metaphysics.
About the author
Her research interests include cognitive semiotics and technological aesthetics. Her major publications include Matrizes da linguagem e pensamento: Sonora, visual, verbal (2001); Semiótica aplicada (2002); and Culturas e Artes do Pós-Humano (2003).
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Articles in the same Issue
- Preface
- Diagramming narrative
- The new literary semiotics
- The contributions of Peirce's philosophical disciplines to literary studies
- Literary practice on the immediate horizon of the elaboration of semiotics: Peirce's meetings with a few great authors
- The making of the literary symbol: Taking note of Langer
- A semiotic definition of literary discourse
- Semiosis, art, and literature
- Story (first order predicate) logic
- Narrative self-reference in a literary comic: M.-A. Mathieu's L'Origine
- Recontextualizing character: Role-theoretic frameworks for narrative analysis
- Universal minds
- Reconsidering the unreliable narrator
- The cognitive import of the narrative schema
- The story turned upside down: Meaning effects linked to variations on narrative structure
- The role of Vorstellung in literary semantics
- Action between plot and discourse
- Perception already stylizes: On phenomenological semiotics
- Literary semiotics and cognitive semantics
- The representation of consciousness in language and fiction: A cognitive theory of enunciation
- Laughing brains: On the cognitive mechanisms and reproductive functions of mirth
