Semiotyka a literatura i literaturoznawstwo
Streszczenie
The paper concerns semiotic investigations of literature. Semiotics has always inspired
literary studies. Scholars of Peirce’s school of semiotic studies attempted to answer the
question whether literary text is a sign and what is its place in Pierce’s classification of signs.
School based on structural linguistics (F. de Saussure's influence) has worked out two
still developed approaches in semiotic studies. The former attempts to describe literature
as one from the midst of semiotic systems (shaped in the same way as the natural languages),
systems which can generate texts, utterances, texts of culture. The latter tries to present literary
work as a sign which has its own referential abilities, abilities which are independent of
reference of language.