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The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand.

Jonathan Culler

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler

Jonathan Culler

Born: 1944 (age 79)

Bio: Jonathan Culler is a Professor of English at Cornell University; his published works are in the fields of structuralism, literary theory and criticism.

Known for:

Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction (1997)
The Pursuit of Signs (1981)
Theory of the Lyric (2015)

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