A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed.
A Text, on the other hand is engaged in a movement ... a deferral ... a dilation of meaning ... the play of signification.
Metonymy - the association of part to whole - characterized the logic of the Text.
In this sense the Text is "radically symbolic" and lacks closure. (Roland Barthes)

A work has two levels of meaning: literal and concealed. A Text, on the other hand is engaged in a movement ... a deferral ... a dilation of meaning ... the play of signification. Metonymy - the association of part to whole - characterized the logic of the Text. In this sense the Text is "radically symbolic" and lacks closure.

Roland Barthes

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