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culture can still be relevant today,throughwhat he describes as “social energy”-Discuss.  \nHC-1601070202040401]  \n[Contd.  \n1  \n4 (a)\"While reading meaning we have to consider two things -   14the actual text and the actions involved in responding tothe text”.Discuss with reference to Iser's 'The ReadingProcess'.  \nOR  \n(b)Write a critical appreciation of Stanley Fish's 'Interpreting 14the Variorum'.  \n5 Write short notes (any two):  \n14  \n(A)Relationship between Postmodernism and Capitalism.  \n(B)Notion of interpretive Communities by Stanely Fish  \n(C)Two types of positions of an Author according toMichel Foucault  \n(D)Occidentalism and Orientalism","cbCaikWsWT5QwBPC","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikWsWT5QwBPC","pdf",91698,"English","# Examination Sections\n## Section 1: Walter Benjamin and Michael Foucault\n## Section 2: Edward Said and Fredric Jameson\n## Section 3: Postmodernism and Stephen Greenblatt\n## Section 4: Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish\n## Section 5: Short Notes 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