99 Reviews

Reviews Appreciating our beginningsRachel Blau DuPlessis and Ann Snitow, eds, The Feminist Memoir Project: Voices from Womenʼs Liberation, Three Rivers Press, New York, 1998. xii + 531 pp., $20.00 pb., 0 609 80384 0. Sheila Rowbotham, Threads Through Time: Writings on History and Autobiography, Penguin, Harmondsworth, 1999. 432 pp., £8.99 pb., 0 1402 275541. The […]

Fixing meaning: Intertextuality, inference and the horizon of the publishable

Fixing meaning Intertextuality, inference and the horizon of the publishable Rachel malik What is reading? Recent attempts to characterize it have conceded, and in many cases celebrated, its elusiveness as an experience. In Michel De Certeauʼs words, reading, unlike writing, takes no measures against the erosion of time (one forgets oneself and also forgets), it […]

Exchange on ‘Fixing meaning’: Where does meaning get its fix? A response to Rachel Malik’s ‘Fixing meaning’ & Reply

Letter Where does meaning get its fix? A response to Rachel Malik’s ‘Fixing meaning’ The questions of pragmatic and intertextual accounts of communication raised in Malikʼs ʻFixing meaningʼ (RP 124) are not answered by suggesting a kind of complementarity between them or their complexification via the ʻhorizon of publishingʼ. This is arguably because, as the […]