Popularna semiotika: bebe u američkoj kratkoj prozi

Abstract

Methodologically speaking, the paper applies the deconstructive semiological analysis to three stories written by American authors: “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, “Hills Like White Elephants” by Ernest Hemingway, and “Little Things” by Raymond Carver. Such an approach opened the following questions: the semiological status of babies in the mentioned texts, possible manifestations of the sign’s polysemy within the context of short American fiction, and, consequently, the validity of the claim that babies are the perpetual blind spot of the Western literary discourse