Self, Sign, and SymbolMark Neuman, Michael Payne Bucknell University Press, 1987 - 177 pages These essays wrestle with a number of postformalist questions and are ordered so as to present a new argument for the self-sufficiency of the text. Collectively they suggest that recovery of interest in the meaning of texts and the exchange between writer and reader may become the next new criticism. |
Table des matières
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Opening the Closure and Vice Versa | 34 |
Coleridges Scientific and Philosophic Insights | 45 |
Scrutinizing the Discourse of History | 72 |
The Wings of the Dove and In a Balcony | 95 |
Eliot Burglary and Musical Order | 117 |
The Dynamics of Vision in William Carlos Williams and Charles Sheeler | 130 |
A Metacommentary on Roland Barthess Empire of Signs | 144 |
The Visible Object | 168 |
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