The Well Wrought
Closure
 
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Jonathan D. Culler
in Deconstruction:

Culler on 'repetition and proliferation' vs. 'crystalline closure'
 
DILBERT, Sunday, March 2, 2008, on styles of refutation in debate

“The alternative to ‘crystalline closure’
is not, then, an endless and chaotic
‘repetition and proliferation,’ but a
*structured relationship of significance.”

— The Old New Criticism and Its Critics,
by R. V. Young, Professor of English
at North Carolina State University