Biosemiotic Literary Criticism

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This volume is based to a large extent on the understanding of biosemiotic literary criticism as a semiotic-model-making enterprise. For Jurij Lotman and Thomas A. Sebeok, ¿nature writing is essentially a model of the relationship between humans and nature¿ (Timo Maran), biosemiotic literary criticism, itself a form of nature writing and thus itself an ecological-niche-making enterprise, will be considered to be a model of modeling, a model of nature naturing. Modes and models of analysis drawn from Thomas A. Sebeok and Marcel Danesi¿s Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis as well as from Timo Maran¿s work on ¿modeling the environment in literature, ¿ Edwina Taborsky¿s writing on Peircean semiosis, and, of course, Jesper Hoffmeyer¿s formative work in biosemiotics are among the most important organizing elements for this volume.