A semiotic interpretation to the opus <i> The Strangler </i> (SHELDON, 1994) and <i> Run for the heritage </i> (SHELDON, 1995): the suspense as an effect of sense

Authors

  • Bruna Longo Biasioli UNESP – Universidade Estadual Paulista

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21709/casa.v7i2.2209

Keywords:

reading, semiotic, suspense

Abstract

This paper proposes to analyze two opus from literature for children and teenagers that have appeared in the lists of the soldest books from 1994 to 2004, that are: The strangler (SHELDON, 1994) and Run for the heritage (SHELDON, 1995). The greimasian semiotic is applied on the analyzes with the function of stealing the sense of this texts, to observe how the discursive composition of both of them is, so as to cause the same effect of sense at the reader: the Suspense. In another words, it will be seen, in this paper, how the Suspense speach´s composition is done, by the semiotic theory, taking as example the two texts named and collected from the lists of the soldest books.

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Published

19/01/2010

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 2 (2009)

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Papers

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