Article: Introduction.(summary of critical essays)

At least since Roland Barthes, and the distinction between the writerly and the readerly text, "post" criticism has had to acknowledge modernity s overlooked addressee--the open-endedness of the addressee pole, and thus the plurality of receptions/readings that any text can have. This situation, renee c. hoogland suggests, does not necessarily lead to an endless deferral of meaning. Following Mikhail Bakhtin and Felix Guattari by taking music as her example, hoogland, in "The Matter of Culture: Aesthetic Experience and Corporeal Being," argues that reading is still about meaning-making--in and through the situation of the reader's world. With the existential condition, or ...

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