Faultlines: Cultural Materialism and the Politics of Dissident Reading

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Clarendon Press, 1992 - 365 pages
If we come to consciousness within a language that is complicit with the social order, how can we conceive, let alone organize, resistance? This key question in the politics of reading and subcultural practice informs Alan Sinfield's book on writing in early-modern England.

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two Cultural Materialism Othello and the
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three When Is a Character Not a Character?
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An Outline Theory
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History Ideology and
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six History and Ideology Masculinity and
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Questions of Subjectivity
143
eight Sidneys Defence and the CollectiveFarm
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Hamlet
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ten Cultural Imperialism and the Primal Scene
254
Notes
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Index
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