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Papadzules: Walter Benjamin and Tim Burton

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Walter Benjamin and Tim Burton. In telling the story of my father's life, it's impossible to separate fact from fiction, the man from the myth. The best I can do is to tell it the way he told me. It doesn't always make sense and most of it never happened. but that's what kind of story this is. Watch "Big Fish" finale. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Insert Witty Title Here]. A Little Something About Theory. Caitlin's Lit Crit Blog. Hidden in the Text. Learning the Art of Motion.

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Papadzules: Personal Economy and the Ability to Perceive

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Wednesday, May 7, 2008. Personal Economy and the Ability to Perceive. That being said, I would like to reflect on a small point that Herrnstein-Smith made that I felt was particularly insightful:. Moreover, the subject's experiences of an entity are not discrete, or strictly speaking, successive, because recollection and anticipation always overlay perception, and the units of what we call 'experience' themselves vary and overlap. I have wondered before about my own perceptive abilities. I am asked a...

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Papadzules: April 2008

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Monday, April 14, 2008. The Art of Appreciation. Based solely upon the work itself, the unity, the literary devices, the elements that can be evaluated using exegetical methods? Wikipedia defines the concept of formalism in art. In the following way:. I would like to dissect the question a bit. What is the aim of working to appreciating art that we do not instantly appreciate? In a way, are we attempting to adhere to societal norms? Truly rooted in understanding the inherent worth of that art? Or is that...

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Papadzules: The Death of the...Person?

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Tuesday, May 6, 2008. The Death of the.Person? This semester in Spanish Linguistics class, we learned an important distinction between the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis of linguistic relativity. And the vision of cognitive linguistics. Do we first have cognition, or a way of seeing and understanding the world, or do we first have language which then shapes the way that we see and understand the world? I find it difficult to embrace Barthes' radical ideas about the death of the author given my situated-ness in a...

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on literary matters and such: On Cleanth Brooks and formalism

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On literary matters and such. Wednesday, September 17, 2008. On Cleanth Brooks and formalism. Why do we consider form such an immovable, illuminating thing? Why do critics consider it the unshakable alternative to Wimsatt's and Beardsley's dreaded fallacies? Why do we expect that structure guarantees Truth, and consider historical/biographical discussions flimsy wanderings yielding relativism? What if its historical function had been. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Http:/ litcritconvo.blogspot&#...

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on literary matters and such: More on classic status (and a crazy YouTube video)

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On literary matters and such. Sunday, May 4, 2008. More on classic status (and a crazy YouTube video). Literary critic Roland Barthes writes:. So, considering my lack of exposure and experience in the area, I wonder what creative reading actually looks like? How does one jointly-produce a text through reading? Rather than accepting and/or rejecting, does the reader accept some and reject some? Does that show readerly discernment? Does one write essays in response, creatively altering the text? Which uses...

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on literary matters and such: April 2008

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On literary matters and such. Wednesday, April 30, 2008. A sort of I'm-probably-missing-the-point question in regards to Thomas Aquinas'. Summa Theologica:" when did we start referring to poetry as "art" and not "(the lowest) science"? And what's the difference between the two - art and science - to d'Aquino and his contemporaries, if any? We rarely refer to poetry as science anymore (though some schools of thought would see it as such), so when did the "art" definition apply? The highest form of intelle...

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the literary critter: The need to read

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Friday, April 25, 2008. The need to read. We've talked so much in class about the questions what is literature? And what is reading? While it seems worthwhile for readers and writers to consider the success of increasingly canonical ethnic and women writers, are the ideas and successes limited to the sub-culture of readers? Can they affect society as a whole? I read an article by Andrew Solomon called " The Closing of the American Book. We need to teach people not only how,. But also why to read. What li...

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Know the Place.... eventually.: February 2008

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Bits and Bobs. flotsam of an hours thinking. Browsing my classmates' blogs was a helpful step in arriving at this conclusion. Thank you. :]. So what did I read today? Wimsatt and Beardsley. I loved their direct, no-nonsense approach to correcting what they see as significant errors in approaches to literary criticism. And besides that, they make sense! It really does seem silly to blur the realms of meaning and effectiveness. Some particularly lucid statements I enjoyed include:. A few pages later, anoth...