Tuesday, June 06, 2006

Poetic Obituaries: Considered this country's leading advocate

of French structuralist theory, Mr. [Michael] Riffaterre was a particular authority on semiotics, the study of the meaning and interpretation of signs and symbols. Throughout his career, he was intimately concerned with literature as text--that is, as a work of art built from meaningful linguistic symbols.

from The New York Times: Michael Riffaterre, 81, a Scholar of Literature at Columbia, Is Dead

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