How to succeed in literary theory
without understanding anything. Here is the literary theory version of the "Baffle-Gab Thesaurus." The
method is to combine, taking one from Column A and link it with one from Column B. You may, of course, combine
two or more selections from Column A before you find an appropriate (or arbitrary) word from Column B.
| problematized | signification |
| ontological | ideology |
| bracketing | indeterminacy |
| patriarchal | intentionalist |
| priviledging | signifier |
| poetic | conventionality |
| mediating | ambiguity |
| arbitrary | historicity |
| supplementary | intentionality |
| metonymic | rhetorization |
| semiotic | fictionality |
| figural | hermeneutics |
| representational | schematization |
| literary | valorization |
| authentic | temporality |
| revisionary | primacy |
| referential | functionality |
| linguistic | indeterminacy |
| deconstructing | ideology |
| canonical | authenticity |
| recursive | intentionalism |
| always already | temporality |
| revisionary | uninterpretability |
| typological | absence |
| semiotic | presence |
| ideological | referent |
| structural | signification |
| signifying | erasure |
| historizing | discourse |
| arbitrary | Cartesian cogito |
| referential | totality |
| culturally configured | rupture |