Author: Shapiro, Michael & Shapiro, Marianne
Title: Figuration in Verbal Art
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, (1988). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xvi, 286 pp. Minor rubbing. Some light page-edge soil. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: Theoretical Preliminaries: The Statius of Irony; The Structure of Figures; Style as Figuration; The Poetic Function; Literary Analysis in a Tropological perspecitve: Word-Weaving in Medieval Romance Lyric; A Figural Perspective on Dante's 'Vita nuova'; Pushkin's 'Modus Significandi'; The Metonymic Structure of Pushkin's "Little Tragedies"; Gogol's Tropological Vision; Gogol and Dante; Figuration in Popular Culture: The Figurality of Archie Bunker; Semiosis in Myth: The Slavic Witch, Baba-Jaga.

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Comparative, Literature, Figuration, Figures of Speech, Semiotics, Deconstruction, Critical, Theory