I am still trying to understand the 18th century and do not. This, however, is an interesting article with an interesting author: Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Some Problems and Challenges in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, Kristin Gjesdal, Journal of the History of Philosophy, vol. 46, 2-2008, 285-306. I now understand why to be on Academia.edu: people put … More Kristin Gjesdal and the cutting edge
He is mysterious because the books he has in WorldCat are not the same as those for sale on Amazon. I have never found as high a discrepancy between these two listings before; the lists hardly overlap and this is making me really wonder about WorldCat. The MLA Bibliography is yet again different. Then I … More Joan Ramón Resina
Writer’s Block, Merit, and the Market: Working in the University of Excellence Author(s): Christina Crosby Reviewed work(s): Source: College English, Vol. 65, No. 6 (Jul., 2003), pp. 626-645 Published by: National Council of Teachers of English Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3594274. Accessed: 26/01/2013 22:26 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & … More More on Christina Crosby
Continuous history is the indispensable correlative of the founding function of the subject: the guarantee that everything has eluded him may be restored him; the certainty that time will disperse nothing without restoring it in a reconstituted unity; the promise that one day the subject — in the form of historical consciousness — will once … More Michel Foucault
Marthe Robert says the origin of the novel is the family romance, the Oedipal conflict. Terry Castle says its origin is in orphanhood. Isaacs’ María is an orphan. Orphans are cut off from their origins. Robert says the novel is not about the Foundling but about the Bastard; fairy tales are about foundlings. If I … More On orphans and origins
I have found and cleaned the text. I wrote it off the cuff in 1989 or 1990. I had read the novel so as to teach it, and laughed all the way through (you are supposed to cry) because it was so … overt. Then someone wanted to fill a conference slot in a related area, … More Let us see
…and language is a set of grammar rules, and culture is a museum. These things are not true but I would have better teaching evaluations from both students and other faculty if I lived by them. I would allegedly run through my lecture and go back to the office and keep writing, and everything would … More “Christians are right, and pagans are wrong”
In reality work very little work was done yesterday. I still have to grade, prepare classes, and do these things: – homework update for the culture class – document format issue for this class – film “The Couple in the Cage” [now found in VHS; let’s see about working it into the class] √ – … More Work tracking Thursday
Meansomething flatters me by saying I get a lot done and I am truly honored and it helps to hear it, but let us now review what really happened on this day. Unlike meansomething, my department chair does not think I more than an average amount done and today is a good example of why … More Work-tracking today, #2
I came up with that title for a possible paper long ago and I am looking for the abstract which I know I have. Here is a psychoanalytic-style paper on part of the problematic. Our hero’s separation from the beloved is his Oedipal moment and the whole landscape is suffused with pre-Oedipal desire. I would … More “Gendered Mirrors and Racial Difference…”
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