A SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF "DESPERTAR", BY GUY MAUPASSANT

This paper centers at the construction of the senses in the short story “Despertar” by Guy de Maupassant. The methodological theoretical grounds is based in the Semiotics of French tradition, also called Discursive or Greimasian. The objective was to demonstrate that the senses that emerges from a s...

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Autor: Terra, Ernani
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:Brasil
Recursos:Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT)
Repositorio:EntreLetras
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs2.ufnt.acessoacademico.com.br:article/15889
Acesso em linha:https://periodicos.ufnt.edu.br/index.php/entreletras/article/view/15889
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Palavra-chave:Guy de Maupassant; Despertar; Semiótica.
Guy de Maupassant
Despertar
Semiotics
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Resumo:This paper centers at the construction of the senses in the short story “Despertar” by Guy de Maupassant. The methodological theoretical grounds is based in the Semiotics of French tradition, also called Discursive or Greimasian. The objective was to demonstrate that the senses that emerges from a semantic opposition in the fundamental level manifest themselves in the discursive level through themes and images that shows a character divided between two worlds, one is the world of reality and the other the world of fantasy. In this analysis, it is noted that the transition between these two worlds relate to changes in space, witch one of then corresponding to a specific world. Concludes that the socials coercions overlap to the individual drives.