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i don't often do this, but i am greatly enjoying this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYJKDqjVtVM

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On the blue curtain question. Think of reading as like directing a Shakespeare play. Each performance is different and modern performances would be nothing like those staged in Shakespeare's era. That's because the director (or the reader who reads a book) brings their own experience and context to the text. As in Reader Response theory: the reader writes. A text only exists in the act of its being interpreted

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readingproject 1 year ago

You're right: the idea that an author holds a secret which we try to guess is simplistic. I used to write sample pieces for students as part of creative writing to demonstrate this (because they had the "author" in the classroom, so we could overcome that part of the issue)

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readingproject 1 year ago

Students invariably interpreted my writing in ways I didn't expect. It was great

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suboptimalism 1 year ago

that piece was inspired by a similar experience - someone read something i wrote and had an interpretation i hadn't thought of at all, but that struck me as equally valid

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letslearntogether 1 year ago

Fascinating article and conversation! I've had similar experiences. Funnily enough, interpretation of spiritual texts (i.e.: the field of "hermeneutics") actually discourages people from reading their own meaning into passages ("eisegesis") versus trying to understand what the author was attempting to convey specifically ("exegesis").

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letslearntogether 1 year ago

Where it gets really interesting is when considering how personal approach and social application relate. Is it a story with layer upon layer of metaphor or is it intended to be a legal framework that people live by? What if it is both simultaneously? These questions are not always easily answered.

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

The interplay between author's intention and the reader's personal experience is such a fascinating topic, and it always seems like there's something new to be said about it. Two ideas that come to mind from a literary theory course I took are (1) Foucault's author function, where he replaces the author with something more abstract,

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

and (2) wolfgang iser's theory that the world in the readers mind comes into existence precisely when there are gaps in the author's text. I.e. the power of fiction is completely derived from its subjectivity and openness to interpretation.

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

References for anyone interested: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Foucault_Author.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/468316

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saddleblasters 1 year ago

I find the foucault essay kind of hard to follow, but it was very influential. Iser's perspective was very memorable to me and has been a big influence on how I think about both reading and writing

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suboptimalism 1 year ago

if i recall correctly i was inspired by something i read in the "polemical introduction" of frye's "anatomy of criticism" while on 3 cups of coffee. can't promise anyone else will be able to find what i did in it, though. still have to go back and finish the rest sometime too.

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readingproject 1 year ago

Think I've found it - from Frye: "The absurd quantum formula of criticism, the assertion that the critic should confine himself to 'getting out' of a poem exactly what the poet may vaguely be assumed to have been aware of 'putting in', is one of the many slovenly illiteracies that the absence of systematic criticism has allowed to grow up . . .

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". . . That is, the critic is assumed to have no conceptual framework: it is simply his job to make a poem into which a poet has diligently stuffed a specific number of beauties or effects, and complacently extract them one by one, like his prototype Little Jack Horner."

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nohappynonsense

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p.s. ear rat is still happening, they've just started burrowing through my walls and it's hard to catch all of them because they keep sending texts to my mom telling lies about me (i am working on canceling their phone plan but verizon is being a pain)

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hello hello it's saturday so here we go: https://nohappynonsense.net/perma/2023/topgolfy

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pikemalarkey 1 year ago

I've no idea of Topgolf is but having read this, I feel like I've been there. It's like bowling? All the dingy, smelly, excellent bowling lanes just vanished somewhere and instead you have places full of drunk suits where waiters bring you cocktails to the lanes and you can order food, most of which is described as 'loaded'. Also $$$

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

yes, it's like the new sanitized versions of bowling, that's excellently put. i miss my old local bowling alley that felt like it was covered in a layer of dirt and piss.

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pikemalarkey 1 year ago

Lebowski wouldn't stand for this!

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thank you for following

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What may be our last (or second or third last) review of the year, is most definitely our 600th published review for this website: this year's Booker Prize winner, Prophet Song by Paul Lynch

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

I don't think the second link in the rss feed worked correctly? the blog post link

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readingproject 1 year ago

Thanks. Toriaz picked up a bunch of mistakes in the review too. I think I've fixed the RSS mistake now. Must be the heat here. How are you enjoying winter?

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nohappynonsense 1 year ago

it's been unseasonably warm in my neck of the woods. enjoyable today, bad omen for the future

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