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Chapter Objectives1.Begins with formalist notion of text as metaphorical and ambiguous, but rejects the formalist assumptions of unity and coherence; |
2.Seeks to demonstrate how the structural properties of a text undermine any single meaning we can assign to it as critics; |
3.Rejects the referential, mimetic view of language and extends the notion of "text" to apply to all forms of linguistically-conditioned culture and thought. |
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