Monday, July 14, 2008

How to attach documents?

Hey, how do I post an essay to the blog. I don't know if I can post my thesis because there is a quote in it which was given under conditions that I not publish it. I finished Werther. I thought most of the chapters ended with quite a flourish. The sentiment or emotion of the lost lover was definitely moving (that's not the word for which I'm looking). At the same time, I did think it was somewhat melodramatic. I'm still grappling with the Brothers Karamazov. I'm enjoying it but it's definitely slow. It's full of high Russian melodrama about lost and abandoned love so it's been interesting to see what is brought out by reading it along with Werther. Which makes me think more generally of the way that different texts interact together in the mind of the reader. The books seem to speak to me in different ways based on my own life and to speak to each other differently based on who is in the conversation. Anna, you have a much more solid grounding in critical theory so I'd love to hear what you think about this. While Randolph used to rant that there is only the text, at the same time I wonder if the text is changed (for the reader at least) by the other circumstances that of the readers reading. I'm just rambling now, but interesting to think about. Ben

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