Wolf-Gang Iser: A Group of Lupine Cake-Decorators

It’s too cold out; that’s my “response” as a “reader” to nature’s “text.”
But anyway, today I’ll be talking about Wolfgang Iser. Our book has his essay “Interaction between Text and Reader” beginning on page 1673 (again, for those of you following along).This is a clear example of a reader-response approach; Iser looks at the different [...]

Bear with me on this one

OK, I’m going to keep this one short (though I think “Miʃɛl Fuko (Part Two)” makes up for it in length and depth; if you missed that one, read it rather than this one). Today’s post gets a little bit into the “Intentional Fallacy,” but never mentions it (besides right back there). Like the title [...]

Miʃɛl Fuko (Part Two)

Welcome back to AndrewTheory! More Foucault for all of you Foucalt Faux-Fans and Fanatics!
Ahem. Sorry about the alliteration.
OK, so back on topic. In my last post (Miʃɛl Fuko (Part One)), I talked about Foucault’s idea that language defines how we interpret reality, and how it both is built by and builds the structures of our [...]

Miʃɛl Fuko (Part One)

Interesting Fact: At over five pages, Michel Foucault’s biography in the book is one of the longest on record!
Second Interesting Fact: It’s easier to copy the phonetic version of someone’s name (such as “Miʃɛl Fuko”) then it is to find the right symbols in WordPress’s “Insert Custom Character” interface.
Main Text: Today I’m going to be [...]

The Cleverist Pro-Pontiff, Pope

(Pope was Catholic, in case the Pro-Pontiff thing doesn’t make much sense.)
Not much to say this time around; if you’re looking for a representative post, this one ain’t gonna be it. Pope wrote the excerpt in our book in a poetic form. His “An Essay on Criticism” reads like an awesome poem. Nothing deep here [...]

The Didablogalicon, or, On the Study of Blogging

To be fair, this post might need to be called the Blogascalicon to translate to “On the Study of Blogging” successfully, but I don’t know Greek, Latin, or whatever language this is. Though, in truth, this essay isn’t really about blogging much at all (aside from being a blog), so whatever.

Right, now, the essay I’m [...]

Ayn Rant, or, Shallowism

Here’s a blog post based on nothing more than the swirling mass of ideas inside my head. No quotes from the book this time, nor any quotes whatsoever, since I can’t find my copies of Atlas Shrugged or The Fountainhead. I’m sure some of you are breathing sighs of relief. Before I begin: Yes, I [...]

Howe Now, Browne Cow?

Last time here at AndrewTheory, I began to engage Raymond Williams’ idea that “the concept of ‘literature’ becomes actively ideological.” With that topic still in mind, I turn to Irving Howe and his essay “History and the Novel,” which runs from page 1535 to 1547 in our class textbook.
Howe’s interesting ideas about Christianity and Christian [...]

Raymond Williams: Marxism and Blogging

To begin with, I think that Raymond Williams would be perfectly happy having a blog talk about him, had he any idea what a blog was/is. A leading intellectual who studied a number of aspects of popular culture, he would have probably had a blog himself. That’s just a note to warm us up here.
Now, [...]

Been a while?

Hey, sorry nothing has been updating. I’m fixing the problem and getting things up as possible.
Update: It looks like my linked words aren’t coming up in the blogs. If I have time, I’ll go back and fix those.