Representation and subjectivity in modern literature

Marlies Kronegger

pp. 231-237

in: John Deely, Margot D. Lenhart (eds), Semiotics 1981, Berlin, Springer, 1983

Abstract

Whereas representatives of impressionist¹ and phenomenological background see language as the expression of self and world, the new novelists and structuralists of the last fifteen years recognize the converse of this: that self and world are shaped by the structure of language. It seems to me that these two intuitions, radically inadequate when treated disjunctively, operate in conjunction with each other.