About Value

Abstract

It might be conceded that, despite the supporting convictions provided in the Introduction and elsewhere in the book, ‘meaning’ is not so central to literary theory as has been suggested. So rather than look at aspects of interpretation, which, as Steven Connor confirms in Theory and Cultural Value, has been the major preoccupation of virtually all theory and criticism over the past twenty-odd years, we might tum from issues integral to hermeneutics such as ‘author’ and ‘intention’ and approach Literature from the perspective of ‘value’.