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Iceberg Theory: i humiliate, separate the english from the dutch
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Who needs Harold Bloom? Wednesday, April 25, 2007. I humiliate, separate the english from the dutch. The secular and non-secular world are exposed so that we can see all the tiny gears working. what have we exposed? As this is my final post, i almost forget that were talking about literature! I want to get sentimental and dramatic. While researching, links between theories were revealing themselves. with lacan, i was jumping into feminism, postcolonialism, and even into postmodernism. I'm a goddamn pisce...
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature: April 2007
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature. Wednesday, April 25, 2007. Even though this makes sense to me, I have trouble with the idea of the writer not actually writing the text. As a writer, I want to believe that what is produced by my author function had at least. Or, if it happens to be good, how can I be praised for it? I don't deserve praise for something that I had no control over (what is the point of writing a research paper if we are not really writing it? How do we make change for the better?
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Iceberg Theory: January 2007
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Who needs Harold Bloom? Wednesday, January 31, 2007. What do you mean? Or how do you mean? Intentions, intentions. seems to be the overriding difference between the two theories. liberal humanists contend that great literature speaks in universals and thusly an author should aspire for the same. his/her intentions should be determined by this need to portray something universal, whatever that is. Yes of course, but i think we'd have to put marxism aside to figure that out. Friday, January 26, 2007. All t...
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Iceberg Theory: response to previous post
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Who needs Harold Bloom? Sunday, March 25, 2007. Response to previous post. I definitely agree that your unconscious is "scripting your texts for you," but I don't think it means death of the individual; rather, it's an understanding of how limited our freedom of action is. And the little freedom we do have is important. (previous response). Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile. Rant on the real. Response to previous post. Its like the matrix! The countess of the academy.
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Iceberg Theory: it's like the matrix!
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Who needs Harold Bloom? Wednesday, March 14, 2007. It's like the matrix! Once the image has been mastered and found empty, immediately rebounds in the case of the child in a series of gestures in which he experiences in play the relation between the movements assumed in the image and the reflected environment, and between this virtual complex and the reality it reduplicates." lacan. 190, rice and waugh. Or i think what baudrillard. Means is that the real is not necessarily. Implies is that the hyperreal.
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature: Is writing simply "performative"?
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature. Tuesday, March 20, 2007. Is writing simply "performative"? Http:/ blog.escdotdot.com/2007/02/01/creative-journal%E2%80%94roland-barthes-and-pierre-bourdieu%E2%80%94the-death-of-the-author/. This blogger discusses some of Barthes' concepts from "The Death of the Author." One concept I find interesting is the idea that when a "scriptor" engages in the process of writing, he/she is not creating, but performing. March 22, 2007 at 8:20 AM. March 23, 2007 at 1:52 PM.
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature: Simulation and Self
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature. Tuesday, April 3, 2007. There is so much in Ken's post to think about, but I want to focus on Baudrillard's idea of simulation. Ken explains, "simulation stands in for reality, this is the order of the counterfeit or of forgery.simulation hides the absence of reality.simulation produces its own reality, as if reality was the consequence of a model that makes possible its production.". Is simulation the only possible mode of perceiving reality? If so, what. I think...
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature: Metaphor and Reality
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Looking a Little Deeper into Literature. Wednesday, April 18, 2007. There are countless examples of metaphors that have become adopted into literal language because they provide the only way to understand something. One example (from Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff and Johnson) is Love is Magic: "She. Over me. The. Is gone. I was. By him. I'm. By her." Another example is Life is a Container: "I've had a. For him. There's. For him in life. Her life is. With activities. Live your life. I'm an English major,...
