Philip Goldstein is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2000), and Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians and Communism (1993). He is author of The Politics of Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Marxist Cultural Theory (1990).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reception Study in a Multicultural EraChapter 2 Cultural Value and Poststructionalist Theory: The Case for a Leftwing Reception StudyChapter 3 Marxism and/as Humanism: The Reception of HamletChapter 4 Feminism and Poststructionalist Criticism: The Reception of Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5 Conformity and Resistance in High Art: From Thomas Hardy to Toni MorrisonChapter 6 Gender, Spies, and Art: Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Mickey Spillane, and Sara ParetskyChapter 7 Orwell as a (Neo)conservative: The Reception of 1984Chapter 8 Critical Realism or Black Modernism? The Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Reception Theory's understanding of textual meaning as the social and historical life of texts gives it a metacritical status in relation to other interpretive discourses, which are themselves a part of that life. Philip Goldstein's Communities of Cultural Value makes an important move in putting reception theory back on the agenda of literary and cultural studies.

Philip Goldstein is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2000), and Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians and Communism (1993). He is author of The Politics of Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Marxist Cultural Theory (1990).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reception Study in a Multicultural EraChapter 2 Cultural Value and Poststructionalist Theory: The Case for a Leftwing Reception StudyChapter 3 Marxism and/as Humanism: The Reception of HamletChapter 4 Feminism and Poststructionalist Criticism: The Reception of Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5 Conformity and Resistance in High Art: From Thomas Hardy to Toni MorrisonChapter 6 Gender, Spies, and Art: Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Mickey Spillane, and Sara ParetskyChapter 7 Orwell as a (Neo)conservative: The Reception of 1984Chapter 8 Critical Realism or Black Modernism? The Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Reception Theory's understanding of textual meaning as the social and historical life of texts gives it a metacritical status in relation to other interpretive discourses, which are themselves a part of that life. Philip Goldstein's Communities of Cultural Value makes an important move in putting reception theory back on the agenda of literary and cultural studies.

Philip Goldstein is Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He is the editor of Reception Study: From Literary Theory to Cultural Studies (2000), and Styles of Cultural Activism: From Theory and Pedagogy to Women, Indians and Communism (1993). He is author of The Politics of Literary Criticism: An Introduction to Marxist Cultural Theory (1990).

• Chapter 1 Introduction: Reception Study in a Multicultural EraChapter 2 Cultural Value and Poststructionalist Theory: The Case for a Leftwing Reception StudyChapter 3 Marxism and/as Humanism: The Reception of HamletChapter 4 Feminism and Poststructionalist Criticism: The Reception of Pride and PrejudiceChapter 5 Conformity and Resistance in High Art: From Thomas Hardy to Toni MorrisonChapter 6 Gender, Spies, and Art: Ian Fleming, John Le Carré, Mickey Spillane, and Sara ParetskyChapter 7 Orwell as a (Neo)conservative: The Reception of 1984Chapter 8 Critical Realism or Black Modernism? The Reception of Their Eyes Were Watching God

Reception Theory's understanding of textual meaning as the social and historical life of texts gives it a metacritical status in relation to other interpretive discourses, which are themselves a part of that life. Philip Goldstein's Communities of Cultural Value makes an important move in putting reception theory back on the agenda of literary and cultural studies.