On Dec 17, 2008, at 3:29 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
If nothing else, the list of stuff Carcaroth provided that you wrote off is a pretty good list of fundamental debates in the question of how to read sources and what they mean - debates that have ramifications in all fields. To declare them irrelevant to our process is... problematic.
I didn't write off the subjects, I just wrote off reading about them when they are written using a bunch of made up words. If someone would like to summarise the debate in English, I'd be very interested to read it.
The debate is in English.
There are appropriate uses of jargon, but the way lit crit uses it is just designed to make the author look clever.
That's flatly untrue. The jargon is there for a reason. Jargon free summaries lose vast amounts of the content.
When it becomes impossible to tell the difference between the real thing and satire, you know something has gone horribly wrong.
I don't know about you, but I have no problems along this line.
-Phil