A complex system of related parts
Nov. 3rd, 2009 12:47 pmStructuralism is really dead now.
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sleepingcbw is the only one who's going to get that joke, isn't she?)
More seriously, I had no idea he was still around. What an impressive intellectual life he led.
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More seriously, I had no idea he was still around. What an impressive intellectual life he led.
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Date: 2009-11-04 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-04 05:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-11-04 03:51 am (UTC)(I'm... not convinced structuralism is dead. It's held on a bit longer in my field thanks to Schenker, but... the impression I have is that many of us are still doing structuralist things but we know not to call it that. I don't have any non-musical examples of that, though.)
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Date: 2009-11-04 05:14 pm (UTC)I think I could buy that. On some level, I think all close readings are structuralist (a poem is a system and you're examining how the parts work together), and we still use them to support larger arguments (or, for some holdouts, as papers in themselves).