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Textual Closure

Textual Closure is a hermeneutic construct in reader-response criticism that denotes the interpretive resolution a reader imposes on a literary text, distinguishing it from other interpretive processes by its function in terminating indeterminacy and stabilizing meaning through affective or cognitive completion.

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2017–2026

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Publications

38

Poetic Closure: A Study of How Poems End

John Bender, Barbara Herrnstein Smith · Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism · 1970 · 531 citations

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Classical closure: reading the end in Greek and Latin literature

Choice Reviews Online · 1997 · 483 citations

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The dynamics of “closure” amidst the construction of market, profession, empire and nationhood: An historical analysis of an Australian accounting association, 1886–1903

Wai Fong Chua, Chris Poullaos · Accounting Organizations and Society · 1998 · 243 citations

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Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel

Tom Lewis, D. A. Miller, Marianna Torgovnick · World Literature Today · 1982 · 157 citations

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Narrative and Its Discontents: Problems of Closure in the Traditional Novel

Laurence Lerner, D. A. Miller · Comparative Literature · 1983 · 148 citations

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Authors

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  1. EC
    Edward C. Scheiner

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  2. DA
    D. A. Miller

    University of Cincinnati Medical Center, United States

    2 publications · 305 citations

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  3. SE
    Sandra E. Moriarty

    University of Colorado Boulder, United States

    2 publications · 43 citations

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  4. RF
    Ronald Frankenberg

    Keele University, United Kingdom

    1 publications · 41 citations

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  5. MH
    Marc Higgins

    University of British Columbia, Canada

    1 publications · 20 citations

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Institutions

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  1. UNSW Sydney

    Sydney, Australia

    2 h-index

    3 publications

    503 citations

  2. University of the Arts London

    London, United Kingdom

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    17 citations

  3. Stanford University

    Stanford, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    531 citations

  4. Center for Applied Linguistics

    Washington D.C., United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    15 citations

  5. Temple University

    Philadelphia, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    19 citations

  6. Washington and Lee University

    Lexington, United States

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    32 citations

  7. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

    Erlangen, Germany

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    30 citations

  8. Princeton University

    Princeton, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    37 citations

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  1. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 6 publications · 799 citations

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  2. Music Theory Spectrum

    2 publications · 77 citations

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  3. DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)

    Repository · 1 publications · 20 citations

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  4. African American Review

    AAR · 1 publications · 17 citations

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