Re: what is literature? the correct reading

From: James Rovira <jrovira@drew.edu>
Date: Fri Mar 07 2003 - 16:09:29 EST

I'd put "deconstruction" and "psychoanalysis" somewhere between
"literature" or "the mind" and "MRI."

Hundred year old prunes, no doubt, still move their eaters.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

> In my simple minded way, I was only suggesting that 'literature'
> & 'the mind' being very wide, windy concepts, were both, thereby,
> quite hard to define in any succinct, declarative way; whereas their
> subsidiaries, 'deconstruction' & 'psychoanalysis' (or 'MRI'), being
> - as I no doubt mistakenly understood - essentially techniques,
> should be a little easier.
>
> (Though, really going to town on simple-mindedness, I wondered
> what might be wrong with: 'literature' as 'what still moves its readers
> a hundred years after it was written.')
>
> Scottie B.
>
>

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