Metalanguage of literary theory: terminology and precision

What this note covers

1. Why metalanguage matters in theorised close reading
2. Ideology, hegemony, and discourse
3. Signifier, signified, and the instability of meaning
4. Intertextuality, heteroglossia, and polyphony
5. The implied reader, the subaltern, and the politics of address
6. Defamiliarisation and the formal dimensions of theoretical reading
7. Deploying metalanguage precisely: structuring a theorised close reading essay

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