-
Replacing Literary History: With Hypograms or Paragrams?
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 16-30
- 10.1353/esp.0.0200
- Article
- Additional Information
- Purchase/rental options available:
Riffaterre believed that serious literary studies analyze the transformation/interaction of all verbal forms, thus giving equal weight to textual signifiers and signifieds. His critique of Saussure’s anagrams revealed however his preference for meanings over forms. I argue for a different literary chronology based on Riffaterre’s early underscoring of form.