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Beyond literary texts: A semiotic approach to a fictional (ritual) game of real (dis)order in William Golding's Lord of the flies
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Doina Cmeciu
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4. November 2010
Abstract
Lord of the Flies by William Golding should be read as an instance of an allegorical discursive practice of the English society during the Second World War. The allegory is interpreted as an interweaving between the apparent contradictory sides of a semiotic square and a Rubik cube that should merge through different permutations having as a final effect the knowledge that the children's innocence comes to an end. Our analysis unfolds the “semiotic web” (Sebeok) based on the metaphorical reasoning that the main characters, shipwrecked on a deserted island, use in order to make sense of the new environment.
Published Online: 2010-11-04
Published in Print: 2010-October
© 2010 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/New York
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- The mythopoeia in Stalinist propaganda of post-war Poland
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