The Pursuit of Signs / Semiotics, Literature, Deconstruction - Rouledge, 1992 - 242

The book is both an overview of semiotics and literary criticism and a discussion of specific critical topics such as the nature of ''intertextuality'' and the relation between structuralism and deconstruction. Preface, Acknowledgements, Beyond Interpretation, In Pursuit of Signs, Semiotics as a Theory of Reading, Riffaterre and the Semiotics of Poetry, Presupposition and Intertextuality, Stanley Fish and the Righting of the Reader, Apostrophe, The Mirror Stage, Story and Discourse in the Analysis of Narrative, The Turns of Metaphor, Literary Theory in the Graduate Program, References, Index.

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