The rhetoric of contagion: Poe's sphinx and its riders—Barthes, Baudrillard, Foucault, Derrida, Miller, and de Man.
This essay represents a measured, reflective engagement with the thought processes involved in critically analysing a literary text, and with what a close and careful reading of it reveals about the nature of signs, problems of referentiality, and complexities of interpretation. Through a series of...
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