There's a Harry Potter version of Waste Land? I...think I need to read this. Link?
Here you are! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Poet (http://ladysisyphus.livejournal.com/294368.html) -- enjoy.
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.
You could even go a bit further and say that the fact that deconstruction deconstructs itself only proves its general validity. But if it can prove its validity merely by being as instable as any other theory, I might as well choose any of those...
Which I would have done anyway. ;) I'm not much into Literary and Cultural Theory in general, I'm afraid. I'm all for close readings of texts as embedded in their specific historical contexts.
(Well, you could still argue that deconstruction at least implicitly knows about its own lack of a stable signifier. But I choose to ignore that... :P)
I'm surprised I heard no mention of it at all during all four years of college, actually.
Oh really? That's amazing! Possession is even on our recommended reading list, and it is taught quite often in classes on metafiction, too.
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Date: 2006-08-30 10:29 pm (UTC)Here you are! Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Poet (http://ladysisyphus.livejournal.com/294368.html) -- enjoy.
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.
You could even go a bit further and say that the fact that deconstruction deconstructs itself only proves its general validity. But if it can prove its validity merely by being as instable as any other theory, I might as well choose any of those...
Which I would have done anyway. ;) I'm not much into Literary and Cultural Theory in general, I'm afraid. I'm all for close readings of texts as embedded in their specific historical contexts.
(Well, you could still argue that deconstruction at least implicitly knows about its own lack of a stable signifier. But I choose to ignore that... :P)
I'm surprised I heard no mention of it at all during all four years of college, actually.
Oh really? That's amazing! Possession is even on our recommended reading list, and it is taught quite often in classes on metafiction, too.