Welcome to Bookmarker!

This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

Source code on GitHub (MIT license).

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dialectic

what de Man calls the 'dialectical interplay' set up between text and interpreter

—p.22 Jacques Derrida: language against itself (18) by Christopher Norris
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hermeneutic

The 'hermeneutic' tradition, on the other hand, takes account of the interpreter's puzzles and perplexities by including them within the terms of a full and generous response.

—p.16 Roots: structuralism and New Criticism (1) by Christopher Norris
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fiat

the rigid territorial imperative laid down by orthodox fiat

—p.14 Roots: structuralism and New Criticism (1) by Christopher Norris
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dandified

This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.

—p.12 Roots: structuralism and New Criticism (1) by Christopher Norris
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vertiginous

This vertiginous textual movement is resisted by readers who see no connection between the 'structuralist' Barthes and the wayward, dandified discourse of his later writings.

—p.12 Roots: structuralism and New Criticism (1) by Christopher Norris
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