Re: So stand up and introduce yourself.
J J R (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:37:48 -0500 (EST)
Yeah, I didn't mean to sound too much to the other extreme. I think
there are thought systems that have affinities with texts (say, Zen and
Salinger), and thought systems that are artificially imposed on texts
(say, a Marxist reading of Salinger). The latter is what I was
complaining about. Salinger does use a mix, but the feeling I get that
his Christian and Jewish influences were filtered first through Zen.
But at the same time, we always impose our thought system upon the text
when reading it. In a sense, it's inescapable. But the more specific,
detailed and worked out are the beliefs, and the more narrow the values
represented by those beliefs, the greater the chances are of kinda raping
a text rather than reading it. Unless the author shared those beliefs...
Thanks, btw, for the Vico reference. ANYTHING to make Finnegan's Wake
more intelligible is appreciated :)
Jim
<<And finally Jim who i'm really replying to in respect for the dance lit
always does...when thought systems and texts mesh/clash I think it's
pretty possible to track reading tracks...for example...not that
_Finnegan's Wake_ made trendous sense to me or anything, but after
reading
Vico's _New Science_ I felt more at home in the Joyce text...Vico may
have
been an author Joyce was reading while writing FW...but in all honesty
Jim
I enjoy both "thought system tracking" in texts and personal/creative
rambling. There's usually a clear time and place for both types in
academe...funny but the mix is here too and we do use salinger texts
almost like joyce reading vico to continue waking...have I kissed the
ground this list stands on lately? will>>
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