Semiotics: Central Texts Quiz
Think you’ve got your head wrapped around Semiotics? Put your knowledge to
the test. Good luck — the Stickman is counting on you!
Q. What’s the name of the core Ferdinand de Saussure text on semiotics?
So Sure: Saussure on the Sign
Course on the Signifier and Signified
Course in General Linguistics
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Semiotics (But Were Afraid to Ask)
Q. Vladimir Propp wrote an influential study on folklore. What was it called?
Old Words and Names in the Shire
Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative
Goldilocks and the Three Signs
Morphology of the Folktale
Q. Which of these is a book written by Roland Barthes?
MythBusters
A Modern Myth
Mythologies
The Myth Factor
Q. Which of the following was an influential 1979 work by Umberto Eco?
A Theory of Semiotics
Sign of the Times
Gimme a Sign
The Semiotics of the Rose
Q. Can you name this classic text by Jean Baudrillard?
The Society of the Spectacle
Simulacra and Simulation
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers
SimCity