Semiotics and the Modern Quebec Novel: A Greimassian analysis of Th?riault's Agaguk (Toronto Studies in Semiotics and Communication)

By Paul Perron

Perron (French, U. of Toronto) analyzes the most popular novel in Quebec since World War II, in the tradition of A. J. Greimas and the Paris School of Semiotics. Using an English translation of the novel, he distinguishes the operation of multiple signs, and establishes a narrative grammar based on

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802009263
• ISBN13: 9780802009265
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 170 Pages