The text appears to take on a reality of its own. We are back to last week's topic of how real is the history that the postmodernists are disregarding.
People begin to look at other versions of reality beyond the capitalist society.
The shallowness and the break with history of the postmodernist movement would seem to disgust the Marxists. All the significance and meaning is lost on them but they consume the cultural industry in great gulps. Adorno and Horkheimer's ideas regarding the willingness of the postmodern society to forfeit all active engagement with the text and surrender any form of imagination or reflection is a reality in my students. But if I am searching for meaning in the text I suppose I am hopelessly stuck in the modernist idea of literature in the first place. The ideas of shallow, impersonal feelings connected to postmodernist views hold no appeal for me.