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

- Jonathan Culler

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

- Jonathan Culler

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. Meanin…

- Jonathan Culler

Meaning is context bound, but context is boundless

- Jonathan Culler

Los Angeles makes the rest of California seem authentic.

- Jonathan Culler

After illuminating the work of Rembrandt, Caravaggio, Louise Bourgeois, Balthus, and other modern artists, Mieke Bal again demonstrates her extraordi…

- Jonathan Culler

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 patron…

- Jonathan Culler