dandified
(en)
(verb) to cause to resemble a dandy (a man unduly concerned with looking stylish and fashionable, or, dated: an excellent thing of its kind)
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bwana
(en)
(in East Africa) a boss or master (often used as a title or form of address)
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Thus the poetic soul: self-serving and macho as any literary bwana
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Thus the poetic soul: self-serving and macho as any literary bwana
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cathexis
(en)
(psychoanalysis) the process of investment of mental or emotional energy in a person, object, or idea
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that's why everybody should pay attention to it: because everybody's fighting about it. It is a culturally cathected term.
postmodernism
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that's why everybody should pay attention to it: because everybody's fighting about it. It is a culturally cathected term.
postmodernism
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gnosis
(en)
(noun) esoteric knowledge of spiritual truth held by the ancient Gnostics to be essential to salvation
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the serpent that offered gnosis to Adam and Eve
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the serpent that offered gnosis to Adam and Eve
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Life Before Theory (or the Time of Tweed). Roughly 1930-1975. The scholar's life was predominantly male and upper-class (less so from the middle-sixties on). [...] Ideologically, the dominant was New Criticism and its modernist cult of the aesthetic. Literature as religion. There was also, significantly, the strong residual presence of historicism/philology and its vestigial ideology of "the great books," "the classics," and "the Western tradition." [...]
The Age of Theory (in which all of the above is French Fried--and to a crisp). Roughly 1975-1982. Poststructuralism and deconstruction sweep onto campus and are merged with sixties politics of various stripes, producing: Queer Theory, ACT UP, French Feminism, post-Marxism, Cultural Studies and the New Historicism. [...]
[...]
The Postmodern Condition (the New Regime of Performativity). Roughly 1982-present. Theory left modernity and its ideological mission not even a few shards to shore against its ruin. The postmodern moment is one of great and very rare opportunity. All is fluid. [...]
incidentally, Of Grammatology was first published in 1967 (English version in 1976)
Life Before Theory (or the Time of Tweed). Roughly 1930-1975. The scholar's life was predominantly male and upper-class (less so from the middle-sixties on). [...] Ideologically, the dominant was New Criticism and its modernist cult of the aesthetic. Literature as religion. There was also, significantly, the strong residual presence of historicism/philology and its vestigial ideology of "the great books," "the classics," and "the Western tradition." [...]
The Age of Theory (in which all of the above is French Fried--and to a crisp). Roughly 1975-1982. Poststructuralism and deconstruction sweep onto campus and are merged with sixties politics of various stripes, producing: Queer Theory, ACT UP, French Feminism, post-Marxism, Cultural Studies and the New Historicism. [...]
[...]
The Postmodern Condition (the New Regime of Performativity). Roughly 1982-present. Theory left modernity and its ideological mission not even a few shards to shore against its ruin. The postmodern moment is one of great and very rare opportunity. All is fluid. [...]
incidentally, Of Grammatology was first published in 1967 (English version in 1976)
praxis
(en)
(noun) ; action practice; as / (noun) exercise or practice of an art, science, or skill / (noun) customary practice or conduct / (noun) practical application of a theory
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As artists, people for whom literature was never only ideology but also praxis, we are in a position to be able to argue that the creation and the critical study of literature should remain at the heart of what departments of English are about.
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As artists, people for whom literature was never only ideology but also praxis, we are in a position to be able to argue that the creation and the critical study of literature should remain at the heart of what departments of English are about.
love this line
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7 years, 3 months ago