Identity of the Literary Text

by Mario J. Valdés

Literary criticism today is dominated by the debate about whether texts have a fixed identity with established meaning or a variable identity with changing meaning. The very nature of what the critic does and what he can provide for his readers is being questioned; the challenge to the traditional view comes especially from the various theoretical formulations which, agreeing on the need to go beyond formal analysis, have been called post-structuralism...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802065643
• ISBN13: 9780802065643
• Release Date: June 1985
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"