Jonathan Culler

"Semiotics as a theory of reading"

K. M. Newton

pp. 98-102

in: K. M. Newton (ed), Twentieth-century literary theory, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1997

Abstract

The fact that people engaged in the study of literature are willing to read works of criticism tells us something important about the nature of our discipline. … Our assumptions that significant things will be said in critical writings may be an expectation more frequently defeated than fulfilled but its presence, indeed its extraordinary persistence in the face of defeat, suggests that we see literary criticism as a discipline that aims at knowledge.

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