Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon

[mike j]

'a finite number of words' - like a finite number of
posts eh millison? be nice or we'll tell your boss
what you do all day.

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I studied Saussure with Todorov. And my copy of V.
still has a finite number
of words, which would add up to a finite number of
signifiers if you
consider the words Pynchon wrote in the novel as
signifiers.

-----Original Message-----
From: jbor [mailto:jbor at bigpond.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 1:35 AM
To: pynchon-l at waste.org
Subject: Re: Thoroughly postmodern Pynchon


Signifier and Signified

"Signifier" and "signified" are terms used in one
branch of linguistics and
literary criticism to describe the components of a
sign: the signifier, to
put it simply, is the word, and the signified is the
thing or idea it
represents. Signifiers needn't be confined to words;
they can include any
system of representation, including drawings, traffic
lights, body language,
and so on. Much of the literary criticism of the last
twenty-five years has
focused on the relationship between the signifier and
signified, and
therefore on the very nature of meaning.

http://www.andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Terms/signifier.html

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