Friday, October 03, 2008

Limiting language

The protagonist in the movie "Smart People" says, at one point, "We respond to literary texts using precisely the same fundamental interpretive categories as authors and poets use to create them. So there's no need to posit any kind of unstable ontology or ruptured consciousness."

I thought that was an excellent comment on literature and the work of literary critics. Do you understand what that means?

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