THE SEMIOTIC STUDY OF POETRY

Abstract

In the 1970s, A.J. Greimas organized the only work entirely devoted to the Poetic Semiotics in the School of Paris: Ensaios de Semiótica Poética (1975). However, throughout the emergent period of the Structuralist Linguistics, several other papers on that theme were developed. Thus, the study proposed is guided by two goals: the first one is to gather several matters regarding poetic semiotics, scattered throughout the literature on the subject; the second one is to analyze the poem “O prestidigitador”, by Paulo Henriques Britto, a contemporary Brazilian poet, through the French semiotics point of view.