ENGL 200 Lecture Notes - Doxa
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The text is the idea and the work is the tangible part, the production. Text is what you make it and it cannot be contained easily to one specific genre. The text is always symbolic because how it is perceived by the reader is dynamic. If there is no work there can be no text. The work is the physical between the covers, the production is the act of the crafting. The text is experienced only in the activity of the production. It goes beyond the doxa, the perceived opinion, and is open. The work is an object of a literal science, or it something to be sought out. Text is infinite to the possibility of meanings. There is no final signifier in a text; one can substitute one signifier for another (the metanymn) it is always in the process of being signified, but never arrives there.
