New Discussion on Artistic Symbols

Author: Wu Hanshang
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: This book starts with the core concept of semiotic schema in literary semiotics—the feature schema—and elaborates on its theoretical implications as the ontological symbol of literary works, its construction characteristics, ontological properties, and functional properties. It analyzes and discusses the semiotic system forms of literary works in traditional and digital media, as well as their internal transformation mechanisms. The book proposes exploratory perspectives on literary ontology, the symbolic function of literature, the mechanism of artistic abstraction, and the semiotic features of digital literary works. It is anticipated that when network media, represented by hypertext, hypermedia, and virtual reality spaces, become the primary media forms for literary works online, literary semiotics will face a challenge. Of course, the ontological symbol, spiritual core, value, and symbolic function of literature will not change. However, the creative process and skills of literary production, the surface-level semiotic forms and functions of literary works, the psychological characteristics and methods of literary appreciation, the special artistic context in literary activities, as well as the interactive relationships among authors, works, and readers, and even the performance and operation of computer hardware and software during literary activities, will all face reinterpretation and reconstruction from concept to method.