The impossibility of being faithful: the metaphor of textual constancy and the illusion of linguistic monism.
This essay is a meditation on the tropic nature of 'adulterous text.' I argue that insofar as all texts are in language, no text can be faithful in any rigorous sense that takes into account the ineluctably pluralistic nature of language as defined since at least Wilhelm von Humboldt. The argument t...
| Publicado en: | Neohelicon Vol. 40; no. 1; pp. 23 - 35 |
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Springer Nature
Jun2013
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