Jonathan Culler quotes
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“The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand.”
-- Jonathan CullerSource : Jonathan Culler (2011). “Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction”, p.69, OUP Oxford
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“Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless”
-- Jonathan CullerSource : Jonathan Culler (2014). “On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism”, p.99, Cornell University Press
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“With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.”
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“After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this committed political art and the relation between beauty, violence, and memory. A tour de force.”
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“Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.”
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“Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.”
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“The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.”
-- Jonathan Culler
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Source : A. S. J. Tessimond (2011). “Not Love Perhaps: Selected Poems”, p.78, Faber & Faber
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Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books
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“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”
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“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”
Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes
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