Jonathan Culler Quotes

#1. With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

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#2. Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is likely to be relevant.

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#3. Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

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#4. Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

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

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#6. . . . literature is not frivolous pseudo-statements but takes its place among the acts of language that transform the world, bringing into being the things that they name.

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#7. Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

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