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John Frow…refers to the identification of an intertext as an act of interpretation in itself, and therefore as a discursive structure rather than a ‘source.’ He suggests that understanding the discursive structure is of greater significance than understanding the ‘facts,’ just as “detailed scholarly information is less important than the ability to reconstruct the cultural codes which are realized (and contested in texts).
This works with the function of review. The function of a review is really no longer meant to describe; it should be linking bigger, cultural ideas so the audience can interpret/infer the meaning of a performance. And not necessarily what that performance meant in an artistic sense, but what did that performance mean from a historical standpoint? Or from an economic one? Or from a technological standpoint? Or from an audience perspective?
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