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Text and Culture - The Politics of Interpretation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi): Daniel Cottom

Text and Culture - The Politics of Interpretation (Paperback, Minnesota Archi)

Daniel Cottom

Series: Theory and History of Literature

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"Text and Culture "was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.

In Text & Culture, Daniel Cottom examines the political aspects of contemporary disciplines of interpretation. He pleads against limiting the act of reading by disqualifying some readings as "wrong" or unscholarly, and he argues for the necessity of multiple readings, claiming that a closed-off text glosses over differences that are political in nature. He proceeds, then, from the notion of text to culture. Just as the reading of the text is conditioned by irreducible political differences, so is the reading of culture. Finally, to illustrate and further develop his arguments, Cottom presents an extensive analysis of Great Expectations.

Cottom's materials range from academic jokes to King Lear, and the writers he discusses range from Kant to Derrida, from Freud to Basil Bernstein, from Ludwig Wittgenstein and Bronislaw Malinowski to Erving Goffman, Clifford Geertz, and Stanley Fish. This study is especially concerned with the way "culture" and related terms, such as "context" and "norm," are part of a larger discourse in the contemporary humanities and social sciences - a discourse in which their effect is to repress recognition of important historical differences, conflicts, and possibilities. At the same time that he shows how difficult it is to get "beyond culture," he tries to indicate how interpretation may be turned into a more socially responsible practice.

Daniel Cottom is associate professor of English at the University of Florida. He is the author of "Social Figures: George Eliot, Social History, and Literary Representation" (Minnesota, 1987) and "The Civilized Imagination: A Study of Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, and Sir Walter Scott."

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Imprint: University of Minnesota Press
Series: Theory and History of Literature
Release date: June 1989
First published: June 1989
Authors: Daniel Cottom
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Edition: Minnesota Archi
ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-1763-0
Categories: Books > Social sciences > General
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LSN: 0-8166-1763-5
Barcode: 9780816617630

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