The Fabrication of Meaning: Literary Interpretation in the United States, Great Britain, and the West Indies

摘要: This study, an investigation of how human beings make cultural works meaningful, compares the different meanings that readers from West Indies, Britain, and United States constructed a single source, fiction Barbadian novelist George Lamming. The socially shared presuppositions they brought to their reading caused Indian reviewers interpret Lamming's novels as involving questions personal national identity, British concentrate on novels' language literary qualities, American emphasize race. Each exercises degree "cultural power," this capacity engender multiple while retaining coherence shows emerge interaction between varying power recipients expectations concerns. In turn, suggests theory metaphor enables research in sociology culture utilize both sociologica...