Benjamin Harshav is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Until 1987, he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he established a department of poetics and comparative literature. He is also the founding editor of the journal Poetics Today. His recent books include Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2003) and Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology(Stanford, 2006). He is also the editor of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture(Stanford, 2003).

• Contents @toc3:Prefacexx @toc2:1. Fictionality and Fields of Reference: A Theoretical Framework1 2. Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and The New York Times000 3. An Outline of Integrational Semantics: An Understander's Theory of Meaning in Context000 4. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model000 5. On Presentation and Representation in Fiction000 6. The Meaning of Sound Patterns in Poetry: An Interaction Theory000 7. "Literariness" Revisited: A Contemporary Manifesto000 8. The Structure of Non-Narrative Fiction: The First Episode of War and Peace000 @toc4:References to Chapters 18000 @toc1:Frameworks000 @toc2:9. The Elusive Science of Literature: Remarks on the Fields and Responsibilities of the Study of Literature [Tel-Aviv 1968]000 10. A Unified Theory of the Literary Text [Berkeley 1972] 000 @toc4:Sources of the Chapters000 Index000

Benjamin Harshav is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Until 1987, he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he established a department of poetics and comparative literature. He is also the founding editor of the journal Poetics Today. His recent books include Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2003) and Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology(Stanford, 2006). He is also the editor of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture(Stanford, 2003).

• Contents @toc3:Prefacexx @toc2:1. Fictionality and Fields of Reference: A Theoretical Framework1 2. Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and The New York Times000 3. An Outline of Integrational Semantics: An Understander's Theory of Meaning in Context000 4. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model000 5. On Presentation and Representation in Fiction000 6. The Meaning of Sound Patterns in Poetry: An Interaction Theory000 7. "Literariness" Revisited: A Contemporary Manifesto000 8. The Structure of Non-Narrative Fiction: The First Episode of War and Peace000 @toc4:References to Chapters 18000 @toc1:Frameworks000 @toc2:9. The Elusive Science of Literature: Remarks on the Fields and Responsibilities of the Study of Literature [Tel-Aviv 1968]000 10. A Unified Theory of the Literary Text [Berkeley 1972] 000 @toc4:Sources of the Chapters000 Index000

Benjamin Harshav is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Until 1987, he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he established a department of poetics and comparative literature. He is also the founding editor of the journal Poetics Today. His recent books include Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2003) and Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology(Stanford, 2006). He is also the editor of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture(Stanford, 2003).

• Contents @toc3:Prefacexx @toc2:1. Fictionality and Fields of Reference: A Theoretical Framework1 2. Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and The New York Times000 3. An Outline of Integrational Semantics: An Understander's Theory of Meaning in Context000 4. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model000 5. On Presentation and Representation in Fiction000 6. The Meaning of Sound Patterns in Poetry: An Interaction Theory000 7. "Literariness" Revisited: A Contemporary Manifesto000 8. The Structure of Non-Narrative Fiction: The First Episode of War and Peace000 @toc4:References to Chapters 18000 @toc1:Frameworks000 @toc2:9. The Elusive Science of Literature: Remarks on the Fields and Responsibilities of the Study of Literature [Tel-Aviv 1968]000 10. A Unified Theory of the Literary Text [Berkeley 1972] 000 @toc4:Sources of the Chapters000 Index000