Interpretive reading gains purchase only where postmodern signifiers reduce to binary oppositions.
Evidence
To the degree to which they appear easily reducible to some of the binary oppositions just mentioned (high and low culture), and to that degree alone, we are in the presence of a kind of “theme,” which might at the outside limit be the occasion for an interpretive act and allow us to suggest that the videotext is “about” this particular opposition. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 232
Categorization
- QUESTION: Jameson withholds full interpretive payoff here — the passage signals a method of testing when a postmodern text becomes interpretable at all.
- XREF: connects to: Typologizing readers denies the contingency central to literary meaning — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1966; An outdated interpretive framework can reveal the postmodern by failing to fit its object — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 290; Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120 (+1 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Typologizing readers denies the contingency central to literary meaning — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader: Selected Works of…, 1966; An outdated interpretive framework can reveal the postmodern by failing to fit its object — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 290; Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Postmodern texts relate through difference rather than organic unity
#complicates(0.82) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 120 - Transindividual structures, not authorial intention, anchor strong interpretation today.
#complicates(0.72) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 477