Jim wrote: > Let me give you a specific, concrete example--very simple. I am in a [cut] > 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. -- Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu