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Fosso, Kurt; Harp, Jerry – College English, 2012
We set out to investigate Miller's curious assertion--curious for a deconstructionist committed to a critique of the old metaphysics of presence--that literary works preexist their being written down. We find a basis for this sense of the preexistence of the literary work in Miller's insights about the performative dynamics of reading and writing.…
Descriptors: Literature, Theories, Literary Criticism, Reader Text Relationship