After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism in taking on the work of Doris Salcedo, exploring the philosophical and aesthetic stakes of this… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordinary flair for cultural criticism… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None of this,… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
“Communication depends on the basic convention that participants are cooperating with one another and that, therefore, what one person says to the other is… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature. — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations… — Jonathan Culler Copy Share Image