Literary theory... OF DOOM
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elabyThere are a few possibilities here: Edward Said is just too smart for me, my brain is lacking vital connections when it comes to theory, or this is all just abstraction crack.
"Scattered through the Histoire generale et systeme compare des langues semitiques* are reflections on the links between linguistics and anatomy, and - for Renan this is equally important - remarks on how these links could be employed to do human history."**
Ignoring completely that I don't think his definition of "anatomy" could be the same as mine, given the context... how exactly does one "do human history"?!
The whole book is like this. 350 pages of "You're not using that word in any way that I've ever imagined that word could be used."
Oy VEY. Gimme my lyrical ballads back.
*Please excuse my lack of accents ague and grave in various places.
**Ohyeah. Edward W. Said, Orientalism, pp 142.
"Scattered through the Histoire generale et systeme compare des langues semitiques* are reflections on the links between linguistics and anatomy, and - for Renan this is equally important - remarks on how these links could be employed to do human history."**
Ignoring completely that I don't think his definition of "anatomy" could be the same as mine, given the context... how exactly does one "do human history"?!
The whole book is like this. 350 pages of "You're not using that word in any way that I've ever imagined that word could be used."
Oy VEY. Gimme my lyrical ballads back.
*Please excuse my lack of accents ague and grave in various places.
**Ohyeah. Edward W. Said, Orientalism, pp 142.
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Date: 2005-09-07 01:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-09-08 01:02 pm (UTC)I would say abstraction crack. I consider myself a fairly intelligent person with a better than average command of the language, and the only response that the above passage can evoke from me is "Oro?" *grins*
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