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TEXTUALITY
the shape of a star - in which things may move without necessarily
intersecting and advance without necessarily meeting, and where
every day (or chapter) is a different world pretending to forget the
one before - is that it corresponds to what seems to be an essential
tendency in the world itself: its tendency to expand, to dilate'
(Kristeva 1992: 214-15). 7
7 •*" Note that Textuality is a principal concern of many of the theorists examined
in this book. See Part I, Chapter 3, 'Rhetoric' for New Critical and Deconstructive
approaches to the text; Part II, Chapter 1, 'Ideology' for Marxist and Post-marxist
approaches; Part II, Chapter 4, 'Gender and Sexuality' and Part II, Chapter 6,
'The Gaze' for Feminist positions; and Part II, Chapter 5, 'The Other' for Postco-
lonial perspectives. Of related interest is also Part III, Chapter 2, The Aesthetic'
for a discussion of the artwork as text.
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