DontHate Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Oh shit, better change fields. I guess you could go into... Media studies? gilbertrollins 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisajay Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 That was a neat video; thanks for sharing! I'm assuming it's yours? If so, do you mind telling me what music you used? I liked it lots. The music towards the end was Dylan, right? Which song? yessir. there's a paper that goes with it, but that's not nearly as fun. the music used is: "mea culpa" // brian eno & david byrne "paris is burning" // st. vincent "most of the time" // bob dylan (post-broken neck, which is the best dylan) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
practical cat Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I guess you could go into... Media studies?I considered that. Too many movies, not enough books. (I really am more into lit than it sometimes appears.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asleepawake Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 (edited) (That and eating disorders. I really want to teach an eventual class on celebrity memoirs and Portia de Rossi's is so relevant to my interests but how?) Yes yes yes. It seems to not have been done much, though fat studies/body studies is happening. Is it possible to be too close to something to write about it academically? With this one, I just might be. Edited December 21, 2012 by asleepawake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
t1racyjacks Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 I say, I feel that DFW is a great writer. I don't think he's pretentious at all. I get the sense that he comes across like that because he's overly self-conscious and that leads to reflexivity that can get annoying. It's a struggle. But there are times where I think he feels free and that is where his prose really shines. I don't think that he's doing whatever he's doing to 'act clever'. I think that M.H. Abrams does an admirable job as a critic. Derrida's reading skills I think, are often overlooked in favor of his philosophy -- but he is an incredible reader as well. I.A. Richards had some good stuff too. Call me old skool. Unfortunately? I don't have a theorist/ scholar Mt Rushmore. I was a biology undergrad for one semester... my admiration, sadly, is mainly reserved for the writers who touch my heart. It is not too difficult to be clever, I think. But it is difficult to express something complicated in a very concise and touching manner -- http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15401'>like so or http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lemon/'>like so. I am quite sick of cleverness and am not very clever myself. I just know that I'm in this because I feel that literary studies have become some sort of desperate search for 'clever' and 'original' ideas. If it were a matter of having 'good ideas' I wouldn't even be doing this. But I do want to remind people of the power of great literature. All the scholarship in the world could not have persuaded me to drop a lifetime of science studies and do my degree in something that I had no guarantee of passing. The only reason why I took that huge risk is because I felt that it was worth it, worth the exposure, worth the time talking about things I loved -- no matter if I failed the degree -- I was willing to take the risk. And ditto with my phd studies. I can't really be bothered to be too clever and come out with wonderful ideas. But I do want to try and make a difference to the way people understand the experience of reading. As my POI told me, if you don't fight for what you believe in, who will? someone's gotta do the job 1Q84 and isawnewton 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestage Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Suicide studies? Go on I study suicide all the time usually at night DontHate, Two Espressos and Deadinthewater 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowMoreSerious Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 in the past several years, i've become much more attuned to representations of suicide in books, film, television, &c. then this past semester, one of my professors joked that literary theory & criticism is logically progressing toward death, so i say, why not specialize in suicide studies? this is outside the scope of my SOP, but it's definitely something gnawing away at the back of my brain. if you're really interested (& at the risk of overdisclosure), here.Great video by the way. It's amazing how much some of those people look like Hemingway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lisajay Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 isn't it?! a giant, living, breathing, annual meme. *swoon* & thanks. glad you enjoyed it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delimitude Posted December 21, 2012 Share Posted December 21, 2012 Gilles Deleuze Jacques Derrida Martin Heidegger Bernard Stiegler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riotbeard Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Karl Marx (Kind of amazed I am the first person to put up Marx) Michel Foucault E. P. Thompson Eva Sedgwick Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NowMoreSerious Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 Karl Marx (Kind of amazed I am the first person to put up Marx)Michel FoucaultE. P. ThompsonEva SedgwickMarx is almost too foundational for me. In the sense that if we were to really be honest about a Rushmore, it would be something like Plato, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud for many of us. Imogene 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProfLorax Posted December 22, 2012 Share Posted December 22, 2012 bell hooks Angela Davis Simone de Beauvoir Eli Clare practical cat and TripWillis 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Datatape Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Alice Walker Cheryll Glotfelty Ursula Heise Jean & John Comaroff (technically cheating as they make it five, but they were co-authors of the book I found so illuminating) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazedandbemused Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Eve Sedgwick Jack Halberstam Michel Foucault Stephen Greenblatt practical cat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asleepawake Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 (edited) I guess I'll do mine, but PLEASE do not desecrate a mountain for this list. Martin Heidegger Michel Foucault Jacques Derrida J.M. Coetzee Edited December 23, 2012 by asleepawake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastiansteddy Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 1) Freud (No one else has listed him?!) 2) Lacan (Can you see where I'm going with this?...) 3) WJT Mitchell (Well, this list took a turn...) 4) 4th one is tough... Benjamin? Foucault? Barthes? Laura Mulvey? Kristeva? Graham Harman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadinthewater Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 3) WJT Mitchell (Well, this list took a turn...)Are you applying to Chicago? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastiansteddy Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Are you applying to Chicago? Yes...sigh. It'll never happen, but... a kid can dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swagato Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Oh dear. Bill Brown WJT Mitchell Mary Ann Doane Miriam Hansen (I purposely left out "canonical" names like Benjamin/Foucault/Deleuze because let's face it, we *all* rely on them anyway.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deadinthewater Posted December 23, 2012 Share Posted December 23, 2012 Bill Brown, WJT Mitchell. Looks like I am among adversaries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sebastiansteddy Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Oh dear. Bill Brown WJT Mitchell Mary Ann Doane Miriam Hansen (I purposely left out "canonical" names like Benjamin/Foucault/Deleuze because let's face it, we *all* rely on them anyway.) So glad someone else picked Mitchell too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waparys Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 No love for Woolf? practical cat and asleepawake 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestage Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 (edited) Woolf is for To the Lighthouse Edited December 24, 2012 by thestage practical cat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waparys Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 "Modern Fiction," A Room of One's Own...those are just bi-products? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thestage Posted December 24, 2012 Share Posted December 24, 2012 Woolf is for To the Lighthouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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