Recent content by tZar

Hi I have just been fooling around with this for a while now. I am not sure if it is done yet or it still could do with some tweeking. Please let me know: Title: By the entrance 1. In the dream by the entrance to your tomb you stopped me with the same words, as I myself had spoken in...

What surprises me a bit in this thread is that only a few is actually commenting on the content of what was said about american literature - why not try to argue his case, or argue a real case that he is in the wrong, instead of just saying that it is another anti-american rant. That might lead...

Of course you americans should write about America - I don't see that being the issue here. The suggestion that american literature is insulated, is that american writers have a tendency to only let voices from the 'local' american culture get a say. This is how a culture closes around itself. I...

Maybe it could be fun to start a thread where we try to interpret small pieces of prose or poems using different literary theories as guidelines, to see what kind of 'meaning' they then produce...

On reading longer prose texts As you can probably imagine from the last post, reading a novel and analysing it using new criticism as your literary theory is quit an accomplishment. All the aspect you would have to keep in mind all the time. Jut the time it would take you reading a novel would...

Okay, we had a rough start talking about deconstruction, so this time I will keep it simple – and when I say that it is probably very relative☺ I would like to talk a bit about new criticism, and I hope a few of you find it interesting – or at least as interesting as the piece on...

A comment on Bookworm Fellow's story: Just a couple of comments – do not take this the wrong way, I am not trying to crush your work, I just see a couple of week themes in it. First of all the names seems a bit off. Horatio must or at least should have some meaning, as should john, in...

Okay – I decided to come up with (and steel) a couple of examples of deconstructed texts, just to show how and what to do with deconstruction. I will present different elements of what to look for in texts, and end up with a practical example of how to deconstruct a couple of texts – to the best...

Hehe - and just to clarify: Reader response theory has nothing to do with deconstruction... In short: deconstruction: we get what is from the text. Reader response: we add what is not to the text. -tZar

First of all: It does not have a universal legitimacy - but not for the reasons you mention - it has to do with a philosophical point, that there is no absolute truth, whereby it follows that you cannot achieve that. Secondly: It does get a bit complicated, as the answer to the question...

Again no, it is not saying that we bring all this into the text. It is about revealing the text for what it is - a cultural thing, with no absolute TRUTH. It is about what we can get OUT of the text, not what we put INTO the text. The text is not really interested in our biases, but we can...

First of all - sorry for the rather long break. I have been busy and a lot of other lame excuses... I will try to answer some question which have been posted in the following messages. NO - These hierarchies are not dependant on the reader. We can by reading the text determine which...

@Peder: I am not quite sure that is what he wanted. As deconstruction was developed as a (anti)theory of knowledge it it not really about the text as such (the critiques say). If we want to utilise the 'theory', we have to analyse a text, and then return to the text, and look for the aspects we...

Hello there I am going to be deconstructing the fairytale of H. C. Andersen called ‘the teapot’, which can be found at: Hans Christian Andersen : The Teapot :: www.andersen.sdu.dk :: The Hans Christian Andersen Center Please read the text before going on - its short, so I am sure you will...

As I was reading Sitarams response on HOW to get into the novel, in the thread 'Unravelling themes, symbolism and other such literary stuff', it struck me that there was not information on HAW to do it. ’Just’ a lot of examples on what can be accomplished when doing it. I thought it would be a...