A Literary Semiotics Approach to the Universe of Meaning in George Orwell’s 1984 Narrative

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5275-2018-9
Verlag: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 335 Seiten

Semiotics can be considered as a well-organized signification journey taken among the pages of the work of art. It requires background knowledge related to the field and its analysis tools, as well as careful reading practices in the text to reach the projected destination after stopping over in certain stations. These stations represent meaning intersections where the meaningful formations are articulated to contribute to the generation of the semantic universe of the text. The presentation of such a fictional universe can be complicated because of the nature of the literary work and the language used. With regards to Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, what makes its fiction precious is the masterful acts of the author in both paradigmatic and syntagmatic dimensions.

This book conducts a semiotic analysis in order to unfold the enigmatic semantic organization of Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four narrative by penetrating the formative structures at various meaning levels of the text.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kalelioglu, Murat

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Semiotik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Semiotik

Über Autor(innen)

Kalelioglu, Murat
Murat Kalelioglu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting in the School of Foreign Languages at Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey. He has a comprehensible background in philology, teaching, and literature, and he has directed his research to semiotics as an inter/multi/trans-disciplinary approach. Since obtaining his PhD in Literature, he has combined his academic knowledge and experience with semiotics. His publications include The Theory of Signification: Semiotic Criticism and Literature (2017) and Analysis of Duha Koca Oglu Deli Dumrul Narrative within the Framework of Literary Semiotics (2018).

Murat Kalelioglu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Translation and Interpreting in the School of Foreign Languages at Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey. He has a comprehensible background in philology, teaching, and literature, and he has directed his research to semiotics as an inter/multi/trans-disciplinary approach. Since obtaining his PhD in Literature, he has combined his academic knowledge and experience with semiotics. His publications include The Theory of Signification: Semiotic Criticism and Literature (2017) and Analysis of Duha Koca Oglu Deli Dumrul Narrative within the Framework of Literary Semiotics (2018).