Showing papers by "Jonathan Culler published in 1993"
TL;DR: The Umberto Eco Index as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about the history and interpretation of the UML text of UML and its relationship with the author and the text.
Abstract: Introduction: Interpretation terminable and interminable Stefan Collini 1. Interpretation and history Umberto Eco 2. Overinterpreting texts Umberto Eco 3. Between author and text Umberto Eco 4. The pragmatist's progress Richard Rorty 5. In defence of overinterpretation Jonathan Culler 6. Palimpsest history Christine Brook-Rose 7. Reply Umberto Eco Index.
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TL;DR: Deconstruction's death is usually attributed either to suicide-to its falling back into the dead-end formalism it was supposed to remedy-or to murder at the hands of the new historicists, whose calls for rehistoricizing and recontextualizing the study of literature have successfully called into question the supposed self-canceling textualism of the deconstructionists as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: from Cornell University Press. DECONSTRUCTION, it seems, is dead in literature departments today. While plenty of discourse is still produced concerning deconstruction, its heyday has apparently passed: precious few critics would identify themselves any longer as deconstructionists; the topic does not dominate MLA convention panels any more; in the summer of 1992, at the School of Criticism and Theory, Barbara Johnson spoke on "the wake of deconstruction," exploring, among other things, its untimely passing away. Deconstruction's death is usually attributed either to suicide-to its falling back into the dead-end formalism it was supposed to remedy-or to murder at the hands of the new historicists, whose calls for rehistoricizing and recontextualizing the study of literature have successfully called into question the supposed self-canceling textualism of the deconstructionists. Consider the following (for the time being, anonymous) assessments, the first representing the suicide theory, the second the murder theory:
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