Re: Fw: Salinger and Buddhism as promised
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:29:08 -0400
Jim wrote:
> Let me give you a specific, concrete example--very simple. I am in a
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> But you see how context determines meaning--a context provided by facts
> completely outside the domain of language. Seeing that, you should also
> see how removing language from all reference to a single context allows
> for a seemingly limitless possibility of meanings for a text.
>
> That is post-structuralist thought. Partly.
More directly addressed in Stanley Fish's theory of interpretive
communities. I'd recommend also Fish's essay, "How to Recognize a Poem
When You See One," available in several places.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu