1.   But the distinction between literary texts and cultural texts is important, and I shall return to it.

2.   Even if literary texts were not seen as copies of reality, they were nevertheless regarded as copies of structuralist models.

3.   Examining Spenser and Ireland, therefore, raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves.

4.   For Brooks, Wimsatt and Beardsley complexity and coherence together constitute the key considerations in the analysis of literary texts.

5.   For the production-model of the literary text is a very academic one.

6.   It largely disappears when literary texts are treated as cultural traces in a cognitive rather than an affective reading.

7.   Literary texts, like all other works of art, have a historical context.