Strategies and Methods: Relocating Textual Meaning, is a strategic map of reading for the beginner as well as for those interested in the fate of the present day humanities. The author describes this as a primer, a basic book, but in dealing with foundational and fundamental questions revolving round the means and methods of teaching English language and literature in the present, he in fact leads us into new and newer territories .What can the teacher of English and more generally the academic in the humanities do to stop the general faltering of the market-centred society in which we live? Do we have a map of our territories to begin with? What methodologies can we resort to in order to get our bearings and resist the debilitating forces? This is certainly bound to hold interest of the student and teacher and the research scholar all alike.