Readers, responses and popular culture

Marnie Hughes-Warrington

pp. 215-237

in: Marnie Hughes-Warrington (ed), Palgrave advances in world histories, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

Abstract

We know that a text is not a line of words releasing a single ‘theological’ meaning (the ‘message’ of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash. The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from innumerable centres of culture.3