Abstract
In the first part of this paper, we reassess the steps and the three main jumps, or
ruptures, responsible for the coming about of semiotic studies of narrativity: from
the Proppian functions to narrative utterances; from the subject’s performance
to their competence and their competence and modal existence; from modality
to passions. In the second part, we point out the new paths and perspectives in
development. One main new proposal is considered here: the semiotic study of
passions, which, having preconditions of meaning, resolve many of the difficulties
faced in earlier semiotic treatments of passions and esthesis.