The Subject of an Utterance as an Object of Study of Literary History

If it is true that there is not only one possible narrative about events in the past; if it is true that a text is only the discursive outcome of information put into words; if it is true that neither generalizing nor a synthetic canon exists, then what we are left with is a subject who writes texts using his/her own more or less subjected discourse. The focus of research is therefore a creative subject. Not an abstract philosophical subject, but the subject of the process of textualization, meaning that not one theoretical premise developed by literary theory since the moment it placed language at the center of research has lost any of its significance. The only difference is that the subject of literature is not oriented towards “verbal communication” (language as a means of communication affects, at most, the reader; the subject has nothing to do with it), but merely towards the constitution of his/her own word (or own discourse).