THEORISTS

AUTHOR
(the expressive approach)

REPRESENTATION
(the mimetic approach)

READER
(the pragmatic or reader-response approach)

TEXT
(the objective or formalist approach)

LITERARY HISTORY / INTERTEXTUALITY

Edward Said "Secular Criticism"

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Stanley Fish "What Makes an Interpretation Acceptable"

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Michel Foucault "What Is an Author?"

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Biddy Martin "Feminism, Criticism and Foucault"

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Janice Radway "Interpretive Communities and Variable Literacies: the Functions of Romance Reading"

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Edward Said Orientalism

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Helen Tiffin "Post-Colonial Literatures and Counter-Discourse"

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