Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second-hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at once remove from my consciousness
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Yury Lotman used the imagery of cybernetics to show how the poem formed a complex organic totality
What semiotics represents, in fact, is literary criticism transfigured by structural linguistics, rendered a more disciplined and less impressionisticenterprise
With the work of the Prague school, the term 'structuralism' comes more or less to merge with the word 'semiotics'. 'Semiotics', or 'semiology', means the systematic study of signs, and this is what literary structuralists are really doing.
The Prague school of linguistics [...] elaborated the ideas of the Formalists, but systematized them more firmly within the framework of Saussurean linguistics
