For a Semiotic and Cognitive Approach to Romanian Postmodern Poetry

Abstract

[Abstract] Our article deals with the directions of development in Romanian literary semiotics and in international semiotics presenting a brief introduction to Romanian postmodern poetry suitable for those encountering this ?exotic’ literature for the first time (an outline of different groups of poets and considerations of how Romanian postmodern poets relate to the postmodern theory we are familiar with). The second part of the article presents a model of textual analysis for postmodern poems based on M. Riffaterre’s Semiotics of Poetry (1978) re-read in the light of cognitive concepts and theories in an attempt to obtain a detailed understanding of the semiotics of Romanian postmodern poetry.