http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/ This is the blog for Dr. Richard Parent's seminar on hermeneutics and contemporary narrative. Copyright 2005 Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:43:41 -0500 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Some links of interested that relate to my presentation today. If you're reading this before class- don't look at them... OR ELSE! Robert Kendall's Online Poetry Class (Offered through The New School) http://www.wordcircuits.com/kendall/classes/index.html Kendall's Candles For a Street Corner http://www.bornmagazine.org/projects/candles/... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/relevant_links_from_beth.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/relevant_links_from_beth.php Wed, 07 Dec 2005 12:43:41 -0500 I can't remember how to print on both sides of a piece of paper, so in the interest of being a true Vermont hippie, I'm posting the contents from my research source on the blog. (They'll be easier to find... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/digital_poetics_table_of_contents.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/digital_poetics_table_of_contents.php discussions Wed, 30 Nov 2005 13:28:16 -0500 I forgot to add the chapter contents to my handout on Fredrick Jameson’s Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, so Richard suggested that I should post it on the discussion board. The contents are as follows: Introduction ix... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/chapter_contents_for_postmodernism.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/chapter_contents_for_postmodernism.php discussions Mon, 28 Nov 2005 09:59:58 -0500 Ricoeur's writings were by far perhaps the 'nicest' theory read yet in this class. Judging from other responses, I'm not the only one to appreciate his deft manuevering around some of the more difficult aspects of hermenuetic thought. Not only... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/condition_of_possibility.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/condition_of_possibility.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:46:10 -0500 I, like Steph, thought immediately of Joyce in my reading of Ricoeur. I agree with Ricoeur's idea that once a text is separated from its author (and/or from its reader) it becomes a separate entity. However, I feel that once... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/wordsworlds.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/wordsworlds.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 14:31:08 -0500 I was extremely intimidated by this reading, particularly because I had to look up one of the five words in the title of chapter four (distanciation). I actually came across a great definition, which eased me into the chapter. Although... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/riheart.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/riheart.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:18:22 -0500 I wrote "Riheart" (get it? coeur=heart)- Beth... I heart Ricoeur Oh and by the way, I also wonder what Ricoeur might say about the issues that surround translating metaphors.... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/riheart.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/riheart.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 13:06:00 -0500 One of the things I found I liked most about Ricoeur was his description of the world created in front of the text. If, as he suggests, the work is separated from the author by physical distance and by its... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/emerald_city.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/emerald_city.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:18:26 -0500 I truly enjoy the way Ricoeur writes, mixing his heavy expository style with whimsy and Romantic reverence for the act of reading. I particularly enjoyed his likening of reading to the execution (enacting) of a musical score (159)—which is not... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/ness.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/ness.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 11:07:44 -0500 In "The hermeneutical function of distanciation," I found myself making a lot of connections between Ricoeur and some major characteristics of modernist literature. For example, his emphasis on the autonomy of the text and the freeing of written material reminded... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/modernism_and_bartholomae.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/modernism_and_bartholomae.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 09:58:23 -0500 Though I agreed with a great deal of Ricoeur’s work in Hermeneutics and the human sciences, I throughout felt that he put too much emphasis on literature’s influence on contemporary people and society. He seemed to stress that we are... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/reality_check_for_ricoeur.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/reality_check_for_ricoeur.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 08:49:28 -0500 “…it seems that reading is the concrete act in which the destiny of the text is fulfilled” (164). Isn’t that the most beautiful phrase you’ve ever heard? Well, at least one of the most beautiful phrases? At least one of... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/you_and_your_fairy_tale.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/you_and_your_fairy_tale.php discussions Wed, 16 Nov 2005 02:48:49 -0500 I’m not sure what to say about Whatever You Want. It certainly wasn’t like the choose you own adventure books I read as a kid which I was hoping it would be. Honestly, I found the book to be a... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/i_always_picked_jump_from_the_train.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/i_always_picked_jump_from_the_train.php discussions Wed, 09 Nov 2005 13:42:03 -0500 The first time that I read "Whatever You Want," I got the (Forlorn) Ending, I got drunk, had my fun and went home alone. How typical. Sounds like every weekend night that I've had here in Burlington. Haha... how reading... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/typical.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/typical.php discussions Wed, 09 Nov 2005 12:50:20 -0500 Although I found many of the ideas presented in Louise Rosenblatt’s The Reader The Text The Poem very interesting, it seems as though this information could have been presented in about a third of the time. In fact, if this... http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/repetition_breedsainsanity.php http://reparent.blog.uvm.edu/340/archives/repetition_breedsainsanity.php discussions Wed, 09 Nov 2005 01:04:23 -0500