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Glossary of Literary Theory |
Écriture
:
A structuralist and poststructuralist
term for the social institution of writing. On this view, literature is
simply a mode of writing, a signifying system of codes and conventions
that operates within the larger sphere of écriture. (See
also Deconstruction.)
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