Resisting Texts: Authority and Submission in Constructions of Meaning

by Peter L. Shillingsburg

"It is with no desire or hope to promote a correct or superior form of textuality, with no desire to correct a so-called interpretive or editorial textual abuse, nor any attempt to prevent anyone from doing anything imaginable with texts or books that I have undertaken this book. . . ." So writes Peter Shillingsburg in his introduction to this series of meditations on the possibilities of deriving "meaning" from the texts we read.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472108646
• ISBN13: 9780472108640
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.4"