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Your page is so inspiring! Tysm for following back
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I GOT AN A ON MY ANNA KARENINA PAPER GUYSSSS
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dulcesilly's avatar dulcesilly 1 year ago

LETS GOOOO

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I'm making a bookbug page: https://the0bserver.neocities.org/bookbug . Decided to participate too and this made me work on my site that was idle since 2022
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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

Happy you're joining & that it brought you out of retirement! Do you have a button we can link you with? The one on your homepage won't load.

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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

If not we can use a text link- Vashti

the0bserver's avatar the0bserver 1 year ago

I fixed the code of the image on my homepage, I think is working now. The link of the button it's this https://i.imgur.com/nrWeEzY.png

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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

just added you to the member list! thanks for joining <3 - maple

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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's avatar 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's avatar readingproject 1 year ago

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

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suboptimalism's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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's avatar 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 . . .

readingproject's avatar readingproject 1 year ago

". . . 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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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

Added three new members- Vashti!

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done with exams... i'll probably be less active bc i got nothing to procrastinate anymore
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I'm still making decorative decisions, but I made a bookbug page to join in next month! https://cyberneticdryad.neocities.org/home/library/bookbug
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inkcaps's avatar inkcaps 1 year ago

Yay yay I'm happy you're joining! :D

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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

Added you to the page! ~Vashti :-)

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your art is amazing!
I love your sonic shrine so much ohhhmy god ToT
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indylandia's avatar indylandia 1 year ago

thank you!! <33

Hello once again! I decided to jump the shark and started working on my bookbug page: https://devils.gay/etc/bookbug Really appreciate what you guys are doing here, can't wait to get my hands on Convenience Store Woman :)
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bookbug's avatar bookbug 1 year ago

So happy you're joining :) I added you to our page & I hope you enjoy Convenience Store Woman. It's going to be a reread for me & I love that book. -Vashti

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Loooovvveee your site so much you made so much progress!!
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indylandia's avatar indylandia 1 year ago

Thank you sm!! I've been working on it every day lol

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had to revamp my index and lost some buttons - let me know if i dont have your button in my homepage footer!
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indylandia's avatar indylandia 1 year ago

thank u !! <33 I loved putting the santa hat on my kitty hehe

83 followers!! So awesome sauce….
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Thank you for following! Your site is so inspiring
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fairygore's avatar fairygore 1 year ago

to you too!!! i love the whole general aesthetic of your site, it's really comforting

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