“You can be involved with theory; you can teach or study theory; you can hate theory or be afraid of it. None of this, though, helps much to understand what theory is.” — 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
