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Introduction: A Science of Joy
- L'Esprit Créateur
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2009
- pp. 1-6
- 10.1353/esp.0.0195
- Article
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Like his contemporaries Barthes, Kristeva, and Eco, Michael Riffaterre proposed a method of textual analysis that became a landmark for scholars of literature. This issue is the first to re-evaluate Riffaterre’s key concepts and show their relevance to various fields within and beyond French literature.