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method of literary analysis in which words and language are regarded as a fundamental expression of external reality, excluding nonlinguistic factors such as historical context; excessive faith in the meanings of words or their specific usages

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  • The established forms of literary study were presumed to be rigid and authoritarian -- "logocentric" -- although for the most part they simply were not.
  • On the other hand, word-centered or "logocentric" art, like the novel, was stimulated by social and economic needs of Meiji and pre-War Japanese nationalism for a...
  • Shelley's logocentric mind could no longer take up residence in it.
  • The concept of expression that dominates the last pages of the text marks the strongly logocentric character of the 1813 version, which Schelling prepared for printing...
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