Diana Luz Pessao De Barros
Abstract
In the first part of this paper, we reassess the steps and the three main jumps, or
ruptures, responsible for the coming about of semiotic studies of narrativity: from
the Proppian functions to narrative utterances; from the subject’s performance
to their competence and their competence and modal existence; from modality
to passions. In the second part, we point out the new paths and perspectives in
development. One main new proposal is considered here: the semiotic study of
passions, which, having preconditions of meaning, resolve many of the difficulties
faced in earlier semiotic treatments of passions and esthesis.