Algirdas Julien Greimas, Jacques Fontanille The Semiotics of Passion: From States of Affairs to States of Feelings. University of Minnesota Press, 1993. First edition. Translation by Paul Perron and Frank Collins of "Sémiotique des passions" (Editions du Seuil, 1991), with foreword by Paul Perron and Paolo Fabbri. 0816621055 xxvi/239 pages. Softcover volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 9.25", is in fine condition. "Explores the possibility that so-called subjective states - affect, feeling, emotion, passion, avarice, honour, and jealousy - and their multiple mediations can have a semiotic existence. Texts by Descartes, Shakespeare and Proust, among others, are analyzed in the process."