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"But academic writing is based on the idea that we read texts differently."
-Joseph Harris Rewriting: How to do things with texts. Utah State UP. 2006. p. 20.
This is not the venerable Joseph "I seem to have forgotten my duck" Harris that I think of when I hear that name, but rather a director of a writing program.
Moving on, my prof from last semester's course said that literary theory wasn't really going to start gelling for us until later, when we starting applying it to this or that or saw its traces in things we read. And I'm reading this bit and thinking about how IA Richards and New Criticism are weeping in their graves over this idea. (Well, perhaps New Criticism isn't entirely dead, but Richards is, at least until the zombie apocalypse. If he's weeping in his grave, perhaps it's already started. LJ should really have a footnote feature for these asides.)
And now I've finally started to compare New Criticism with that quest for the Ur-Tale that drove the folkloric historic-geographic method. The One True, though now we love more the journey than the destination. Well, some of us do. I often don't remember the endings of books, myself.
What I'm getting at? Not there yet.
"But academic writing is based on the idea that we read texts differently."
-Joseph Harris Rewriting: How to do things with texts. Utah State UP. 2006. p. 20.
This is not the venerable Joseph "I seem to have forgotten my duck" Harris that I think of when I hear that name, but rather a director of a writing program.
Moving on, my prof from last semester's course said that literary theory wasn't really going to start gelling for us until later, when we starting applying it to this or that or saw its traces in things we read. And I'm reading this bit and thinking about how IA Richards and New Criticism are weeping in their graves over this idea. (Well, perhaps New Criticism isn't entirely dead, but Richards is, at least until the zombie apocalypse. If he's weeping in his grave, perhaps it's already started. LJ should really have a footnote feature for these asides.)
And now I've finally started to compare New Criticism with that quest for the Ur-Tale that drove the folkloric historic-geographic method. The One True, though now we love more the journey than the destination. Well, some of us do. I often don't remember the endings of books, myself.
What I'm getting at? Not there yet.