God, I think I love you for linking to the deconstruction of the shopping list! It's one of the most hilarious things I have ever read on LJ. (Apart from the Harry Potter version of "The Waste Land", that is.)
There's a Harry Potter version of Waste Land? I...think I need to read this. Link?
my main problem with deconstruction (I wouldn't necessarily use the term interchangeably with "postmodernism")
I probably should've been more clear about it being an aspect of postmodernism...PM is insidious, and goes beyond text and literature, as I discovered in a history class last semester.
is the fact that a paradox lies at the heart of the theory itself. Deconstruction deconstructs texts, meanings and grand narratives; but it is written in a text supposed to have a certain meaning, ending up as another grand narrative of criticism. I.e. it deconstructs itself.
Ha! Yes, there's that, too. I hadn't even thought of that, but you're totally right. The whole thing just sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, or at any rate a weird feeling in my head, like trying to contemplate infinity or something.
And now you have made me want to reread Possession. I read it during my first uni semester and probably understood less than half of it because I lacked the background knowledge.
I'm glad I didn't try to read it earlier on...I'm sure I didn't understand everything she was referencing anyway, but I definitely would've been lost as a freshman. I'm surprised I heard no mention of it at all during all four years of college, actually.
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Date: 2006-08-30 04:56 pm (UTC)There's a Harry Potter version of Waste Land? I...think I need to read this. Link?
my main problem with deconstruction (I wouldn't necessarily use the term interchangeably with "postmodernism")
I probably should've been more clear about it being an aspect of postmodernism...PM is insidious, and goes beyond text and literature, as I discovered in a history class last semester.
is the fact that a paradox lies at the heart of the theory itself. Deconstruction deconstructs texts, meanings and grand narratives; but it is written in a text supposed to have a certain meaning, ending up as another grand narrative of criticism. I.e. it deconstructs itself.
Ha! Yes, there's that, too. I hadn't even thought of that, but you're totally right. The whole thing just sort of leaves a bad taste in my mouth, or at any rate a weird feeling in my head, like trying to contemplate infinity or something.
And now you have made me want to reread Possession. I read it during my first uni semester and probably understood less than half of it because I lacked the background knowledge.
I'm glad I didn't try to read it earlier on...I'm sure I didn't understand everything she was referencing anyway, but I definitely would've been lost as a freshman. I'm surprised I heard no mention of it at all during all four years of college, actually.