Writing and communication; telling tales and globalisation; light as symbol in Maurice Maeterlinck -- these are the themes examined in relation to the literary texts presented in this book with its proposal of a semiotic approach to literature.
Susan Petrilli is an Italian semiotician, Professor of Philosophy and Theory of Languages at the University of Bari, Aldo Moro, Italy, and the Seventh Thomas A. Sebeok Fellow of the Semiotic Society of America. She is also International Visiting Research Fellow at the School of Psychology, the University of Adelaide, South Australia.