Today I left for the library before 10am and left for home after 7pm and all I managed to read was:
The back of Stanley Fish, Is There A Meaning In This Text? and about 5pp of it, on the tube
The contents page of 3 books (Derrida, Saussure and Ricoeur)
Preface, Introduction and 24pp of Paul Ricouer, Interpretation Theory
That’s about 4 proper pages an hour. At that rate…
Not very good, eh?
Ruddy note taking. And ruddy blogging and email and café and day dreaming and even texting and …
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3 comments:
Brother Marc, you wrote more on your blog today than you read for your PhD!
Was there a meaning in the text?
Lee,
well, I did type out most of the pages I read! And I hope some of the blog stuff might make it into the PhD. Perhaps what I read is a really good editor!
Ros,
For Fish, I think maybe a bit but probably not: its all about the authority of interpretive communities: there are meanings for us which we construct / limit. No doubt Vanhoozer would set me right. I did love Fish's writing, though. I reckon there's a reason why you keep seeing things like this footnoted. Ricouer was very good too.
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