Reclaiming Neglected Remnants

even fellow semioticists incur his wrath:n"No study of literature can be purely formal,nand all attempts to reduce literarynstudy to this level are misguided, if notnpernicious. To the extent that semioticnstudies insist that communication is anmatter of purely formal systems, theyntoo may be misguided if not pernicious."nScholes . . .