21. Increasingly, literary texts are becoming available in computerised form. 22. Choose one literary text which you might work on which is representative, plus one which is well-known, plus one which is neglected. 23. Another type of comparison arises from the fact that literary texts often adapt other sorts of text. 24. In fact, viewed as a social practice, literary criticism takes advantage of this property of literary texts. 25. A literary text is compatible with an indefinite number of contexts yielding indefinitely many readings and re-readings. 26. A methodology that consists of the application of successive linguistic frameworks as an interpretative grid over literary texts makes hollow claims to definitiveness. 27. A realistic linguistics of literary texts which yields interpretations of this sort is incompatible with the institution of literature as it presently stands. 28. The central act of faith of our project is that theories of language itself provide a context of interpretation which yields insights of value applied to literary texts. 29. Engler rejects a notion of pragmatics based on the distinction between text and context and defines textualisation as how a work of verbal art may become a literary text. 30. Foreign learners increasingly need access to dictionaries of English Language and Culture not only for literary texts, but for London Underground posters. |