Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Introduction 1
4. 2. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model 11
5. 3. How Do We Establish New Codes of Verisimilitude? 26
6. 4. Intratextual Rewriting: Textuality as Language Formation 39
7. 5. Inside Greimas's Square: Literary Characters and Cultural Constraints 52
8. 6. Semantic Oscillation: A Universal of Artistic Expression 67
9. 7. The Literary Artifact 86
10. 8. Typography, Rhymes, and Linguistic Structures in Poetry 103
11. 9. Toward a Semiotics of Music 131
12. 10. Two Views of Musical Semiotics 138
13. 11. Miles Davis Meets Noam Chomsky: Some Observations on Jazz Improvisation and Language Structure 169
14. 12. The Problem of "Ethnic" Perceptions in the Semiotics of Music 184
15. 13. Technique and Signification in the Twelve-Tone Method 195
16. 14. A Musical Icon: Power and Meaning in Javanese Gamelan Music 203
17. 15. Preliminaries to a Semiotics of Ballet 216
18. Bibliography 229