La opacidad de la escritura

Abstract

In the present essay, the author tries to analyze the meaning of the concept "Literature". It should be viewed within the frame of recent arguments developed among British and American academics, centering upon crucial issues such as canon-formation and even the relevance of humanistic studies today, after the 60's formal reductio nism. It takes as its starting point the written word as such (not Técriture" neither "writing"). The author, then, defends —without denying their local validity— the absolute necessity of transcending the formal and scientific approaches to literature favoured some ten or twenty years ago, since they take into account only one aspect of the whole process by which language becomes literature. She considers the claims of certain form of interpretation —not exegesis— within post-Kantian developments against the absolute claims of objectivity and defending the shared quality of language which only permits communication to exist and adopting the basic premises of hermeneutical criticism —allowing for certain inconsistencies in the concept of tradition which need much clarification & debate. Central to the argument is the concept of meaning and origin.