Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about patronage, Patronizing the Arts will appeal to a broad audience.

Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

Poetry lies at the centre of the literary experience because it is the form that most clearly asserts the specificity of literature.

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

The poem is a structure of signifiers which absorbs and reconstitutes the signified.

The meaning of a work is not what the author had in mind at some point, nor is it simply a property of the text or the experience of a reader. Meaning is an inescapable notion because it is not something simple or simply determined. It is simultaneously an experience of a subject and a property of a text. It is both what we understand and what in the text we try to understand.