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

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on structuralism

[...] Structuralism, as the term suggests, is concerned with structures, and more particularly with examining the general laws by which they work [...] structuralism proper contains a distinctive doctrine which is not to be found in Frye: the belief that the individual units of any system have mean…

—p.94 Literary Theory: An Introduction Structuralism and Semiotics (91) by Terry Eagleton
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what we have been reading is ourselves topic/literary-theory

[...] The whole point of reading, for a critic like Iser, is that is brings us into deeper self-consciousness, catalyzes a more critical view of our own identities. It is as though what we have been 'reading', in working our way through a book is ourselves.

—p.79 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory (54) by Terry Eagleton
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reception theory

The most recent development of hermeneutics in Germany is known as 'reception aesthetics' or 'reception theory', and unlike Gadamer it does not concentrate exclusively on works of the past. Reception theory examines the reader's role in literature, and as such is a fairly novel development. Indeed …

—p.74 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory (54) by Terry Eagleton
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the arbitrary nature of authorial meaning

[...] For Hirsch an author's meaning is his own, and should not be stolen or trespassed upon by the reader. The meaning of the text is not to be socialized, made the public property of its various readers; it belongs solely to the author, who should have the exclusive rights over its disposal long…

—p.68 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory (54) by Terry Eagleton
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meaning is produced by language

The hallmark of the 'linguistic revolution' of the twentieth century, from Saussure and Wittgenstein to contemporary literary theory, is the recognition that meaning is not simply something 'expressed' or 'reflected' in language: it is actually produced by it. It is not as though we have meanings…

—p.60 Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, Reception Theory (54) by Terry Eagleton