The Silent Word
Subtitle: Textual Meaning and the Unwritten
Contributors: Robert J. C. Young (Editor); Ban Kah Choon (Editor); Robbie B. H. Goh (Editor); Kah Choon Ban (Editor)
Publisher: Singapore University Press
Published: August 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9789971692117
Subjects: Literary theory; Semantics (meaning); Language Arts & Disciplines; Literature, Modern; History and criticism; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Philosophy; Linguistics
First sentence: It is tempting, and plausible, to see the history of modern critical theory as the gradual enlistment of various philosophical doctrines in the name of contesting hitherto unclaimed areas of textual signification or, in short, as a philosophical contestation of the "space" of the text.