The Chains of Semiosis

This paper puts forward a theory of literary writing as a practice of ideological transformation. The example analyzed is the representation of the sexes in George Eliot's novel The Mill on the Floss, a representation which is intertextually mediated, metafictional, and transformative, rather than merely "realistic" or spontaneous. This view of writing as a practice of material production in the intertextual field is theorized on the basis of V. N. Voloshinov's (or M. M. Bakhtin's) materialist linguistics, and of Peirce's semiotics. The methodological kinship between these researchers is asserted (as it was ignored in the 1980s, when this paper was written).

 The Chains of Semiosis: 

Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss

http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PZ81

Author(s):

José Angel García Landa (see profile)

Date:

1991

Group(s):

Narrative theory and Narratology

Subject(s):

George Eliot, Victorian novel, Semiotics, Intertextuality, Women's studies

Item Type:

Article

Tag(s):

Representations of women, Stereotypes

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Written in 1989.

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Sterotypes in The Mill on the Floss." Papers on Language and Literature 27.1 (Edwardsville, Illinois, 1991): 32-50.* http://www.siue.edu/PLL/

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." iPaper at Academia.edu 19 July 2010.*

         https://www.academia.edu/267223/

         2014

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." Online PDF at Social Science Research Network 21 July 2010.*

         http://ssrn.com/abstract=1645219

         2010-07-19

         English and Commonwealth Literature eJournal 21 Jul. 2010.*

         http://www.ssrn.com/link/English-Commonwealth-Lit.html

         2013

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." Online PDF at Zaguán 8 Oct. 2011.*

         http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/6550

         2011

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." ResearchGate 3 May 2013.*

         https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228174273

         2013
_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." Humanities Commons 29 April 2018.*
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6PZ81
    https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:18929/
    2018

_____. "The Chains of Semiosis: Semiotics, Marxism, and the Female Stereotypes in The Mill on the Floss." Selection. In The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner. Ed. Nahem Yousaf and Andrew Maunder. (New Casebooks). Houndmills: Palgrave, 2002. 73-82.* Amazon Online Reader:

         http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/033372805X/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link

         2008

         Introduction by Nahem Yousaf and Andrew Maunder at Palgrave.com

         http://www.palgrave.com/pdfs/033372805X.pdf

         2014

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