Identity of the Literary Text / / Mario Valdes, Owen Miller.

Literary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with changing meaning. The very nature of what the critic does and what he can provide for his readers is being questioned; the challenge to the traditional v...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction: The Identity of the Literary Text
  • PART ONE. TEXTUALITY AND INTERTEXTUALITY
  • Intertextual Identity
  • Literary Identity and Contextual Difference
  • The Making of the Text
  • PART TWO. TEXTUAL DECONSTRUCTION
  • Topography and Tropography in Thomas Hardy's In Front of the Landscape
  • The (Self-) Identity of the Literary Text: Property, Propriety, Proper Place, and Proper Name in Wuthering Heights
  • PART THREE. HERMENEUTICS
  • The Faults of Vision: Identity and Poetry (A Dialogue of Voices, with an Essay on Kubla Khan)
  • The Identity of the Poetic Text in the Changing Horizon of Understanding
  • The Text as Dynamic Identity
  • PART FOUR. ANALYTICAL CONSTRUCTION
  • Literary Text, Its World and Its Style
  • Feigning in Fiction
  • PART FIVE. IDEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
  • The Stability of Literary Meaning
  • The Politics of 'The Question of Style': Nietzsche/ Hö [l] derlin
  • Textual Identity and Relationship: A Metacritical Excursion into History
  • CONCLUSION
  • References
  • Index of Authors Cited