Actually I think a lot of the force of deconstructive/theoretical readings of literature -- readings which stress an essentially philosophical cognitive power to poetry, as in de Man -- comes from the fact that we're ready to embrace elusive arguments once we understand them. Not only ready, but eager. The ground we've won seems ground worth keeping.
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Date: 2006-05-08 12:22 pm (UTC)Actually I think a lot of the force of deconstructive/theoretical readings of literature -- readings which stress an essentially philosophical cognitive power to poetry, as in de Man -- comes from the fact that we're ready to embrace elusive arguments once we understand them. Not only ready, but eager. The ground we've won seems ground worth keeping.