Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of literature insist on the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the social construction of meaning and thought. Against these markers of current critical theory, James L. Battersby argues for the authorial construction of determinate textual meaning, insisting that to think about anything at all we must be able to refer to it, and that such references are, necessarily, the semantic consequences of an author's deliberate, intentional acts.
Propelling Battersby's argument is his use of principles and arguments drawn from...
Many of today's most prominent critics and teachers of literature insist on the endless deferral of textual meaning and on the social construction ...
