Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism: The Spanish Golden Age

by Antonio Gomez-Moriana

In Discourse Analysis as Sociocriticism, Antonio Gomez-Moriana brilliantly applies contemporary literary theory to classical texts of the Spanish Golden Age, including Lazarillo de Tormes, Don Quijote, Tirso de Molina's Don Juan play, and Columbus's Diary.

Gomez-Moriana begins by affirming that Saussure had originally intended semiology as a study of signs in social life before proceeding to focus on the study of system and structure. Gomez-Moriana...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816620733
• ISBN13: 9780816620739
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"