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Textual Indeterminacy

Textual Indeterminacy is a theoretical construct within reader-response criticism and reception theory designating the inherent gaps, ambiguities, and unresolved elements within a literary text that require the active participation of the reader to achieve semantic completion.

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2017–2026

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Publications

63

The Poetics of Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage

Willard Bohn, Marjorie Perloff · Comparative Literature · 1982 · 396 citations

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Languages of the Unsayable: The Play of Negativity in Literature and Literary Theory

Shierry Weber Nicholsen, Sanford Budick, Wolfgang Iser · The Antioch Review · 1990 · 245 citations

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Possible Worlds of Fiction and History

Lubomír Doležel · New Literary History · 1998 · 111 citations

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The Semiotics of Culture and the Concept of a Text

Yu. M. Lotman · Soviet Psychology · 1988 · 80 citations

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Textual Indeterminacy and Ideological Difference: The Case of "Doctor Faustus"

Leah S. Marcus · Renaissance Drama · 1989 · 80 citations

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Authors

73

  1. MP
    Marjorie Perloff

    Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

    3 publications · 529 citations

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  2. CD
    Christopher David Ruiz Cameron

    University of California, Berkeley, United States

    2 publications · 24 citations

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  3. AS
    Andrew Shryock

    University of Michigan, United States

    2 publications · 25 citations

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  4. GT
    Gary Taylor

    Brandeis University, United States

    1 publications · 10 citations

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  5. RK
    Rashid Khalidi

    Georgetown University, United States

    1 publications · 11 citations

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Institutions

19

  1. Drake University

    Des Moines, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  2. Film Independent

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    21 citations

  3. Zhejiang University of Finance and Economics

    Hangzhou, China

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    12 citations

  4. Aarhus University

    Aarhus, Denmark

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    14 citations

  6. Southwestern Law School

    Los Angeles, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  7. Moscow State University of Technologies and Management named after K.G. Razumovskiy

    Moscow, Russia

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    25 citations

  8. University of Illinois Chicago

    Chicago, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    57 citations

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Venues

  1. New Literary History

    NLH · 3 publications · 219 citations

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  2. Choice Reviews Online

    CRO · 3 publications · 104 citations

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  3. Comparative Literature

    3 publications · 448 citations

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  4. Semiotica

    3 publications · 86 citations

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  5. The Modern Language Review

    2 publications · 89 citations

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