Interdisciplinary Character of Contemporary Literary Theory and Poststructuralist Understanding of Literary Text and Literary Meaning

Abstract

The present article aims to introduce major convictions of poststructualism about literary text and literary meaning; to discuss the theoretical complications that arise from poststucturalist beliefs; to show the necessity of including into the interdisciplinary field of research pragmatics and analytical aesthetics; and to argue in defence for alteranative conception of text and textual meaning – recently introduced by a Swedish scholar, Anders PetterssonKeywords: Contemporary literary criticism, interdisciplinary, literary semiotics, literary text, literary meaning, post-structuralism