ABSTRACT
In fact, today there is no language site outside bourgeois ideology: our language comes from it, returns to it, remains closed up in it. When one addresses the question of the relation of text to ideology, it is easy to become abstract and theoretical, far removed from the concrete world in which specific people suffer and die for their beliefs, or as a result of the beliefs of others. However, the reader has much less control over her ideology, and she can change it only at the cost of considerable discomfort and disruption in her life. It is the reader who actively "brings" ideology to the text, thereby resurrecting the dead written words. The reader intertextually enacts an ideology through the text and upon the extratextual world. The intertextual network determines the meaning of every text that the reader reads and weaves these meanings.
