Bourdieu argues that cultural consumption is due to “our need to place ourselves within social hierarchies” (Moran, 72), and that this same need is transferred to how we read texts. In a previous course I learned the use the term “subject position” to frame the specific position that a person inhabits within a culture. For example some of my subject positions are female, white, college student, teenager, creative nonfiction writer, and so on. These subject positions each have a type of hierarchy be it gender, racial, or some other aspect of culture that influence how I read a text. Continue reading “Social Hierarchies and “Marrying Absurd””
English Majors Practising Criticism