What reception theory says — the meaning of a text exists in the interaction between text and reader

What Derrida's 'there is nothing outside the text' means for literary criticism — all meaning is textual, context is text

Derrida's assertion implies that all meaning is derived from textual analysis, dismissing external contexts

What Barthes means by 'the death of the author' — the reader, not the author, creates meaning

"Author's intent is irrelevant; readers generate text's meaning."

What Bakhtin's concept of the 'dialogic' novel means — multiple voices and perspectives without a dominant one

Bakhtin's 'dialogic' novel features diverse voices and perspectives, rejecting a single authoritative narrative

What the New Critics argued — the poem is an autonomous object, ignore the author's biography and intentions

New Critics emphasized the poem's self-contained meaning, disregarding authorial context

What Spivak's 'Can the Subaltern Speak?' asks — whether marginalized voices can be heard within dominant discourse

Examines if marginalized individuals can express themselves in prevailing power structures

What Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement of all the senses' sought — a new poetic language through extremity

Rimbaud's 'systematic derangement' aimed to revolutionize poetry via sensory disruption