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In recent years the notion of determinate meaning—the idea that a word or a line in a literary text means one thing rather than another thing, X rather than Y—has been widely rejected in the name of Derrida and différance, reader-response criticism, and "ideological" approaches proclaiming meaning to be no more than a site of political contestation. Yet determinate meaning, says William C. Dowling, cannot be rejected in this way. Like the ratio named by p or the primeness of prime numbers in mathematics, it has been there all along, waiting for our theories to catch up. The proof that this is so, he argues, is today most compellingly available in the New Intensionalism of Jerrold J. Katz, which provides a powerful demonstration that the method of "close reading" developed by New Criticism remains the only valid basis for higher-order interpretation. For readers with no technical background in linguistics or logic, The Senses of the Text provides a clear and easily-understood introduction to the "Chomskyan revolution" in linguistic theory and to major issues in the philosophy of language, including the work of Frege, Wittgenstein, Quine, Carnap, Kripke, and Davidson.
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William C. Dowling is a professor of English at Rutgers University. He is the author of, most recently, Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson.
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"William C. Dowling's new book is a briskly written, powerfully argued defense of the idea of determinate meaning in literature. It is an important contribution to literary theory and criticism-one that changes the terms of the debate about what it means to interpret a text-and is the major statement so far on behalf of the return to 'the literary study of literature.'"-William Cain, Wellesley College -- William Cain
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- PublisherUniversity of Nebraska Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0803266170
- ISBN 13 9780803266179
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages120
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