Wednesday, February 08, 2006

In theory ...

... colleges and universities ought to be preserving our literary heritage and showing students how to derive maximum benefit therefrom. But in practice Theory has displaced literature.

Question : If "texts are radically indeterminate and inevitably self-subverting," if "no author can successfully inscribe his or her intention in a text or convey meaning through literature," then why bother writing? If the aforementioned premises are correct, then the presumed aim of a text -- to communicate something -- is by definition impossible to reach. This would of course apply to texts expounding theory also.

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