![]() ![]() The dimensions are supposed to be the foundations of the construction of Poe’s literary text. This tripartite model is a three-dimensional model whose axes are: syntagmaticity, paradigmaticity and signification. ![]() The short story is analyzed in terms of the newly semiotic approach, namely The Semiotic triangle. The study proceeds with the hypothesis that Poe’s The Black Cat is a semiotic metaphor or a representation of the actual world of insanity which is resulted from obsession in things. If culture, in one sense, is the complex network of beliefs, behaviors and patterns of thinking, these psychopathic cognitive patterns are wittingly structured in the semiotic system of Poe’s narrative work of art. This paper purports to explore Edgar Allan Poe’ The Black Cat as a structure of interconnected signs which are organically rooted into the code of horror. artifact as such can be analyzed in terms of semiotic theory. ![]() poetry, drama, fiction, the short story, etc. Being a verbal corpus of imaginatively works of art, literature with all its genres, i.e. It is the science of interpreting signs and showing how meaning is generated by and through a shared cultural code. Semiotics is the investigation of the nature, type and function of signs in all walks of life. ![]()
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