TY - JOUR
AU - WOODS, TIM
AB - Merwe's work has shown. But discussion of these as advocating 'diat human thought and language are cut off from direct apprehension of an central issues unfortunately finds little place in extrahnguistic reality'. Contrary to die position Interptrting Popular Music. diat reading as interpretation is merely a form of ANDY HAMILTON convention of die text, Hawthorn wishes to establish his position that 'tp read is to interpret, Durham University and to interpret is to engage in a process by which meanings and experiences are produced dirough a dialectical encounter between reader and text in a context or a set of interlocking contexts'. Not Cunning Passages: New Hisloricism, Cultural surprisingly, dierefore, Hawdiorn is very sceptical Materialism and Marxism in the Contemporary about die politics of poststructuralist and relativist Literary Debate. By JEREMY HAWTHORN. Edward critical dieories and what he perceives to be die Arnold. 1996. pp. 345. Pbk, £12.99. potentially reactionary paths opened by strongly DESPITE THE apparent demise of Marxism in the textualist notions of history. past fifteen years, and the proclamations by Nevertheless, Hawdiorn is not simply various apologists for capitalism diat history dismissive of diese positions: he engages in a has ended, the problems of historicity and me 
TI - BOOK REVIEWS
JF - The British Journal of Aesthetics
DA - 1997-10-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-6bUr5CeYJj
SP - 415
EP - 416
VL - 37
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -