Comparative Literature, October 1st, 2002
LITERARY TEXT IS, on the most objective level, only a collection of other people's words, culled from the dictionary and arranged in an order. Even much of that order-grammar, idiom, heartfelt or parodic use of cliche-- tends to be predetermined by common usage. Yet in these anonymous words and phrasings, each of which taken by itself belongs to the reader as much as to the author, one discerns something produced by and unique to that text.
It has become something of a commonplace that writing in general-modernist and postmodern poetics in particular-depends heavily upon techniques of fragmen...
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