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Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall ... - Page 18
by Peter Cosgrove - 1999 - 290 pages
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Recreating Jane Austen

John Wiltshire - 2001 - 194 pages
...Thing, in Picture Tl1eory, Chicago, 111.: University of Chicago Press, 1994, p. 375. 18 'The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...never original. His only power is to mix writings' (Roland Barthes, 'The Death of the Author' [1968], in Stephen Heath, ed., Image Music Text, London:...
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Shakespeare Survey, Volume 48

Stanley Wells - 2002 - 316 pages
...'The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture . . . the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them' - comes in Act 2.9 Konstantin,...
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Semiotics: The Basics

Daniel Chandler - 2004 - 298 pages
...writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations . . . The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them' (Barthes 1977, 146). In his...
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The Book History Reader

David Finkelstein, Alistair McCleery - 2002 - 404 pages
...sublime and comic and whose profound ridiculousness indicates precisely the truth of writing, the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. Did he wish to express himself,...
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Seeing Hardy: Film and Television Adaptations of the Fiction of Thomas Hardy

Paul J. Niemeyer - 2015 - 308 pages
...clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. ...|T]he writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them. 16 It is with this system...
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An Introduction to the Philosophy of Art

Richard Eldridge - 2003 - 300 pages
...The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centers of culture . . . [T]he writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them.57 Or, in Foucault's formulation,...
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Authorship and Film

David A. Gerstner, Janet Staiger - 2003 - 332 pages
...the text is a sissue of quorasions drawn from the innumerable centers of culture. . . . The writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior, never original. His only power is to mix wrisings, to counter the ones with the orhers, in such a way as never to rest on any of them. Does...
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Authorship and Film

David A. Gerstner, Janet Staiger - 2003 - 332 pages
...gesture that is always anrerior, never original. His only power is to mix writings, to counrer the ones with the others. in such a way as never to rest on any of them. Does he wish to exprest himself, he ought at least to know that the inner "thing" he thinks to "translare"...
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Fragments and Meaning in Traditional Song: From the Blues to the Baltic

Mary-Ann Constantine, Gerald Porter - 2003 - 288 pages
...gesture that is always anterior, never original. Their only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way as never to rest on any one of them'.92 Finally, she is alert to the way that songs are not fixed or inert but can be made...
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Literaturwissenschaft in Theorie und Praxis: eine anglistisch ...

Ralf Schneider, Christina Spittel - 2004 - 294 pages
...The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture. [...] the writer can only imitate a gesture that is always anterior,...His only power is to mix writings, to counter the ones with the others, in such a way äs never to rest on any of them. [...] Succeeding the Author,...
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