Benjamin Harshav is the Jacob and Hilda Blaustein Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at Yale University. Until 1987, he taught at Tel Aviv University, where he established a department of poetics and comparative literature. He is also the founding editor of the journal Poetics Today. His recent books include Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative (Stanford, 2003) and Sing, Stranger: A Century of American Yiddish Poetry—A Historical Anthology(Stanford, 2006). He is also the editor of Marc Chagall on Art and Culture(Stanford, 2003).

• Contents @toc3:Prefacexx @toc2:1. Fictionality and Fields of Reference: A Theoretical Framework1 2. Metaphor and Frames of Reference: With Examples from Eliot, Rilke, Mayakovsky, Mandelshtam, Pound, Creeley, Amichai, and The New York Times000 3. An Outline of Integrational Semantics: An Understander's Theory of Meaning in Context000 4. The Structure of Semiotic Objects: A Three-Dimensional Model000 5. On Presentation and Representation in Fiction000 6. The Meaning of Sound Patterns in Poetry: An Interaction Theory000 7. "Literariness" Revisited: A Contemporary Manifesto000 8. The Structure of Non-Narrative Fiction: The First Episode of War and Peace000 @toc4:References to Chapters 18000 @toc1:Frameworks000 @toc2:9. The Elusive Science of Literature: Remarks on the Fields and Responsibilities of the Study of Literature [Tel-Aviv 1968]000 10. A Unified Theory of the Literary Text [Berkeley 1972] 000 @toc4:Sources of the Chapters000 Index000