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A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

By: Raffaele De Benedictis

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A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

By: Raffaele De Benedictis

A new critical method for the Divine Comedy which focuses not only on language-as-writing but also and equally on other discursive modes that the Divine Comedy authorizes. Multimodality was already present in Dante’s time, and the reception of the Divine Comedy took place multimodally. Thus, a theoretical study of multimodality carried out under the semiotic lens sheds light on how and why a mode is more effective than another and/or how they may combine in producing signification and new ontologies warranted by Dante’s text. Also, we do not yet have a critical theory that allows us to understand the function of multimodality for the creation of new forms of signification and of clarifying the ontological boundaries set forth by different modalities. It is a new and original study which contributes to the advancement of Dante Studies, Literary Criticism (with a focus on literary semiotics), Multimedia/Multiliteracy, philosophy of language, communication, and education.

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218

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Taylor & Francis

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1000952088

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9781000952087

Disobedience in Western Political Thought

A Genealogy

By: Raffaele Laudani

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Disobedience in Western Political Thought

A Genealogy

By: Raffaele Laudani

The global age is distinguished by disobedience, from the protests in Tiananmen Square to the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the anti-G8 and anti-WTO demonstrations. In this book, Raffaele Laudani offers a systematic review of how disobedience has been conceptualised, supported, and criticised throughout history. Laudani documents the appearance of 'disobedience' in the political lexicon from ancient times to the present, and explains the word's manifestations, showing how its semantic wealth transcended its liberal interpretations in the 1960s and 1970s. Disobedience, Laudani finds, is not merely an alternative to revolution and rebellion, but a different way of conceiving radical politics, one based on withdrawal of consent and defection in relation to the established order.

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183

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Cambridge University Press

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1107244773

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9781107244771

Wordly Wise

The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante's Commedia

By: Raffaele De Benedictis

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The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante's Commedia

By: Raffaele De Benedictis

In Wordly Wise: The Semiotics of Discourse in Dante's Commedia, Raffaele De Benedictis proposes a new critical method in the study of the Divine Comedy and Dante's minor works. It systematically and comprehensively addresses the discursive aspect of Dante's works and focuses mainly on the reader, who, along with the author and the text, contributes to the making of discursive paths and discourse-generating functions through the act of reading. This work allows the reader to become acquainted with how meaning is generated and whether it is granted legitimacy in the text. Also, in a system of signification, sign function and sign production are not limited to the properties of the mind but are the result of working interactively with the properties of discourse, which provide directionality for the reader's enunciation(s) in action.

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Berkeley Insights in Linguistics and Semiotics

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1433116227

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9781433116223

Book's by Raffaele De Benedictis

A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

A Semiotics of Multimodality and Signification in the Divine Comedy

Disobedience in Western Political Thought

Disobedience in Western Political Thought

Wordly Wise

Wordly Wise

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