Literary Theory and Its Discontents

The different approaches to questions concerning textual meaning – Stanley Fish’s claim that the meaning of a text is entirely in the reader’s response; the claim made by Stephen Knapp that the meaning of a text is a matter of the author’s intention.

Рубрика Литература
Предмет Literature
Вид статья
Язык английский
Прислал(а) Ира
Дата добавления 11.08.2013
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