Share My Academic Pain, YAY!

[caras_galadhon]

Oh my god, there are few things as painful as reading articles that start:

Fundamental to modern structuralist poetics is the principle that, before applying structuralist methods to the study of the large forms of great literature (if indeed this turns out to be possible at all given our present level of knowledge), these methods should be worked

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[caras_galadhon]

Oh, it's understandable, all right, so long as you understand the jargon to start with. My eyeballs just tried to escape from my head in protest, that's all. ^_~ And really, it's a good example of someone yanking out their academic penis for all to see. It's like, "Really? Really? Why don't you put that away now, ok?" And, well, it's pretty old crap, so it's not even useful as anything but a historical record of semiotics and attitudes towards a mystical "canon."

Aahahah, that's exactly it! The pretension drips off it.

I do, I do! ^_^ I go home twice a year, and a third time to the US for the conference. The Dean House is so much fun. We did it for the first time last year, and I didn't expect Dad to say, "Yes! Let's do it again!" when I brought it up today.

It did, m'dear! I'm so sorry, I'm overdue with a deadline which is about to crash into a second deadline, which is why the radio silence. I'm trying to get the first thing (chapter draft) done in the next couple days, which will give me some quick breathing space in which to answer you. *crosses fingers* Sorry! Am I holding you up?

[evocates]

Yanking out the academic penis is such a good phrase and I'm going to use it everywhere. There are people who yank out their academic penis in fiction writing as well (see: J.M. Coetzee, John Barthes, Umberto Eco) but those tend to do it really well or at least really interesting. Also, awwww, yeah, ;iterature's funny like that - it moves so fast. In linguistics there are still people stuck on Robin Lakoff's 1973 article, nngh.

You can just imagine them talking with their noses so firmly in the air that all you see are those nose hairs. The text is written by sentient nose hairs.

AWESOMESAUCE! 8D I hope you have fun again, ahhhh.

No, it really is okay. I'm doing absolutely nothing with it except hording up my primary texts (i.e. fanfics) because I've been rushing my five essays for school. I wrote something like 6.5k words during the past 2 days so I'm going to laze (in any manner that a workaholic laze anyway) tomorrow, so you're definitely not holding me up any. I mean it when I said for you to take your time 8D I was just worried that gmail is hiccupping again.

Edit: wtf, keyboard.