October 2004
Wednesday 13 October 2004
- Poetry and The Pleasure of the Text - As an English teacher, it's easy to forget about the pleasure of the text -- in fact, a great deal of the difficulties in teaching literature or creative writing is getting students to see that there's much more to a story than the familiar emotional responses we're trained to have... (20:45 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
Saturday 9 October 2004
- Derrida Dead - "Philosophy consists of offering reassurance to children. That is, if one prefers, of taking them out of childhood, of forgetting about the child, or, inversely, but by the same token, of speaking first and foremost for that little boy within us, of teaching him to speak—to dialogue—by displacing his fear... (13:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)