Comments | icepixie: It's hermenuetic, man

icepixie

It's hermenuetic, man

May 24, 2006 20:55

BWAH!

Post-modernist deconstruction of a grocery list, as seen on metaquotes.

Sheer brilliance. And people wonder why I don't want an advanced degree in English...

i am english major hear me analyze, college, randomness

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calixa May 25 2006, 02:24:35 UTC

*cringes*

FIRST YEAR FLASHBACKS! Noooooooooooooo -

icepixie May 25 2006, 04:04:14 UTC

Seriously. I at least didn't run into serious deconstruction until my second year, in an otherwise-fabulous Modern Irish Lit. class. And then we did a lot with postmodernism in one of my history classes last semester. It's infesting other fields! Kill it, kill it!

alto2 June 3 2006, 14:17:33 UTC

Good god, they're still into that deconstruction crap? I thought by now they'd surely have come up with something new to torture themselves and their students with! Of course, I suppose if it's not deconstruction, it's all the Freudian stuff, which also makes me want to kill people. (Yo, dude, sometimes the knight's sword is just the knight's sword! Were you all repressed in previous lives, or something??)

And yes, you couldn't pay me enough to get a graduate degree in English Lit. Not no way, not no how. Which is part of why my hunt for an MFA program in Creative Writing, preferably somewhat locally, is so depressing. I do not want an MA with a focus, people!

icepixie June 3 2006, 15:33:50 UTC

An entire seminar on postmodernism--including lots of deconstruction--was offered at my school. Sigh.

There's one professor at Kenyon who is really, really, really into the Freud stuff. She was actually my advisor; I never took a class with her, but I hear they were all excessively Freudy. Good, but whoa. That said, I ended up using a lot of that kind of repressed Victorian stuff in an essay about The Turn of the Screw I wrote for my big final comps exam, so I was glad a friend of mine had taken that class and could report to me on it.

And yes, you couldn't pay me enough to get a graduate degree in English Lit.

I'm with you. Oof. I imagine at some point in the next few years I'll get an MLS/MLIS, but I really doubt an English Lit. grad degree will ever come my way. Ack.

alto2 June 3 2006, 15:40:40 UTC

(Before I forget, I love your icon--v. cool!)

An entire seminar on postmodernism--including lots of deconstruction--was offered at my school. Sigh.Eeek. Though, I'm pretty sure I could have taken a seminar in Literary Theory. Guess which course I avoided at all costs ( ... )

icepixie June 3 2006, 21:05:44 UTC

(Before I forget, I love your icon--v. cool!)

Thanks! It's a stock photo from this site, which is amazing.

Eeek. Though, I'm pretty sure I could have taken a seminar in Literary Theory. Guess which course I avoided at all costs?

Heh. I tended to avoid them as well; I got a smattering of all the big schools in my other Lit. classes, particularly in the catchall "Kenyon seminar" I took while I was abroad. We had the Postmodernism class, Theory of Comedy, and a Narrative Theory course specifically, if I remember correctly. Kenyon is still very big into "New Cricitism" thanks to John Crowe Ransom (who had a massive influence on our English department). Since it's basically strict Formalism, including lots of close readings, that is fine with me! *g*

I was led to believe that a prof's leanings in terms of theory were largely a product of how old they are/when they were in school.I can see that, definitely ( ... )

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