The Romantic Irony of Semiotics

Friedrich Schlegel and the Crisis of Representation

Marike Finlay

• Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN:
  9783110112429
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110872903
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Linguistics
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

No detailed description available for "The Romantic Irony of Semiotics".

Table of contents

• Introduction
• 1. Bi-planar Semiotics
• 2. A temporary leap of faith
• Part I
• Chapter One The syntactico-semantic paradigm of irony: and beyond
• 1. General formulae of irony
• 2. Referentiality: the ontological status of the entities articu¬lated in irony
• 3. Taxonomy
• 4. Syntax
• 5. The indices of irony
• 6. Towards a pragmatics of ironic context
• 7. ‘Miscellaneous’ and ‘specificity’: the uncontained residue of rhetoric
• 8. Five semiotic formulae
• 9. Paradigmatization of the correlations between the rhetori¬cal and the semiotic meta-languages of irony and the resultant view of the ontological status of irony
• 10. Conclusion: the rhetorical episteme
• A kind of postscript to chapter one
• Part II
• Chapter One An ironic twist of a semiotics of narrative: Friedrich Schlegel’s Roman
• 1. Five semiotic formulae (1.1—1.5)
• 2. “Individual relativism of speech perception”
• 3. Crises confronting the semiotics mode
• 4. Partiality of semiotic solution to irony
• Chapter Two Irony the iconoclast: The crisis of representation
• 1. Hegelian Phenomenology versus Schlegelian Irony
• 2. The negative dialectics of irony
• 3. Adorno versus Schlegel: The fragmented connection
• 4. Schelling versus Schlegel: recuperation versus praxis
• Chapter Three “Über die Unverständlichkeit”: Irony as communicational deconstruction of the semiotic paradigm
• 1. Irony of semantic exchange
• 2. Irony of the “Isotopy”
• 3. The (inter)-semiosic irony of analysis
• 4. Irony of codes
• 5. Irony of temporal distinctions
• 6. Irony of the ontological status of the subject of enuncia¬tion
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects