Sonnet as Closed Form and Open Process

• Published in: Interlitteraria Vol. XVIII; no. 2; pp. 317 - 334
• Main Author: Lotman, Rebekka
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus 2013; Tartu University Press
• Subjects: Literary Texts; sonnet; semiotics of poetry; poetry genres; comparative poetics

The article attempts to highlight two aspects of the sonnet’s semiotic mechanisms from which the dynamics and openness of this form emerge. Firstly, in the production of meaning from the synchronic aspect and secondly, diachronically viewing the sonnet as a process that has a tendency towards the co...