Chapter 8
Text and textual meaning as conceived by standard literary theory
Article outline
- The poststructuralist view of textual meaning
- The idea that language generates meaning
- The idea that context co-determines meaning
- On references to psychological states and human agency
- Derrida on the iterability of signs
- The idea that in language there are only differences
- Standard literary theory on what a text is
- Concluding remarks
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Notes