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To Be And Not to Be is a study of the interrelated concepts interpretation, iconicity and fiction as applied to works of art in general and literary narratives in particular. Two perspectives run through the book: a semiotic one, focusing on the work of art and what it stands for - represents, expresses, alludes to, etc. - and a psychological one, focusing on the audience's interpretation of the work. The book establishes an ongoing dialogue with recent research within analytic aesthetics, narratology and other relevant fields. In particular, the philosopher Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols has proved to be fruitful in the development of new and original concept formations with respect to interpretation, iconicity and fictionality. In the first part some fundamental questions of literary theory are focused on, foremost what is meant by «intentional interpretation», the relation between literary interpretation and understanding of everyday spontaneous discourse as analyzed by Paul Grice, and how to locate aesthetic interpretation within the wider scope of interpretive practices. These discussions yield some conceptual tools deployed in the two following parts of the book. The second part opens with a suggestion on the concept of pictorial representation. This is generalized to apply to verbal and literary phenomena such as temporal matching, quotation, and uses of point of view in narratives. In the final part recent philosophical accounts of fictionality are discussed. Review «Rossholm's book is an exhaustive, richly illustrated, and well- organized study. [...] Unlike many (perhaps one should say 'most') works on narrative technique or reader response, Rossholm's work attempts and achieves a balance on both sides of the icon-text: the artist/author's and the viewer/listener's. [...] 'To Be and Not To Be' is a useful contribution to the semiotics of interpretation.» (Pramod K. Nayar, Philosophy in Review) About the Author The Author: Göran Rossholm is Professor at the Department of Literature, Stockholm University. His dissertation was an analysis of Ibsen's last play When We Dead Awaken, for which he received a Ph.D. in 1987. Since then he has produced scholarly editions of August Strindberg, and articles in Swedish and international press on semiotics and theory of literature.

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13 January 2004
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