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
 [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