In:The Idea of a Text and the Nature of Textual Meaning
Anders Pettersson
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 7] 2017
► pp. 133–157
Chapter 8Text and textual meaning as conceived by standard literary theory
Published online: 26 April 2017
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.c8
https://doi.org/10.1075/fillm.7.c8
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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