The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory

by William C. Dowling

In recent years the notion of determinate meaning--the idea that a word or a line in a literary text means one thing rather than another thing, X rather than Y--has been widely rejected in the name of Derrida and diff rance, reader-response criticism, and "ideological" approaches proclaiming meaning to be no more than a site of political contestation. Yet determinate meaning, says William C. Dowling, cannot be rejected in this way. Like the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803266170
• ISBN13: 9780803266179
• Release Date: April 1999
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.9"