Abstract

The key terms that run through this issue reveal the shape of the Kuhnian paradigm that emerged and stabilized within American criticism in the course of the 1970s. Those seeking to describe its contours can turn to obsessive terms such as Influence (McFarland, Needler), Authority (Needler), Deconstruction (Nevo), Interpretation (Wright, Will), the Reader (Eagleton), Game (Wright), Modernism (Perloff). One also notes the relative absence from these essays of terms that are obsessive elsewhere-Speech Act, Reception, Institution, Semiotics-but have not entered the realm of discourse that constitutes this paradigm.

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