I want to do some reading about the nature of "text." Basically, I was
alive while people like Foucault and Derrida and so on were talking about
intertextuality and the fluidiity of text boundaries and stuff, but I
came at those ideas through reader-response criticism and English
Education (where they speak _much_ more plainly, IMO). But I think I
need to know the pomo theorists, too . . .
So, how did we get from the notion that there's a fixed text to the
notion that texts talk to other texts, to the notion that text boundaries
are downright porous? What's your favorite article/book/ theorist on
this question?
Marcy
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Marcy Bauman
Writing Program, University of Michigan-Dearborn
4901 Evergreen Rd, Dearborn, MI 48128
fax: 313-593-5552
http://www.umd.umich.edu/~marcyb
marcyb@umich.edu
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