The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 14.1481 Tuesday, 22 July 2003
[1] From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 10:29:07 -0500
Subj: Re: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
[2] From: Martin Steward <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 16:37:25 +0100
Subj: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
[3] From: Terence Hawkes <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 13:15:38 -0400
Subj: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
[4] From: Christopher Moore <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 11:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subj: Re: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
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From: R. A. Cantrell <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 10:29:07 -0500
Subject: 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Thanks for the heads up on Brantlinger. You might enjoy a kindred work,
FASHIONABLE NONSENSE, by Alan Sokal.
Professor Sokal's webpage is a great point of embarkation.
http://www.physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal.html
>Rather one Harold Bloom than a thousand Derridae. No Theory has ever
>helped me understand Shakespeare. I'm currently finishing up Who Killed
>Shakespeare? by Patrick Brantlinger: subtitled What's happened to
>English since the Radical Sixties. I still have Baudrillard's cynical
>reasoning and the end of history to look forward to.
>
>Thanks for the link Al,
>William Sutton
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From: Martin Steward <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 16:37:25 +0100
Subject: Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Comment: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
"Rather one Harold Bloom than a thousand Derridae. No Theory has ever
helped me understand Shakespeare."
What, so Bloom doesn't peddle theories, then? Or even Theories?
What was that Keynesian quote, again?
I've found that a sound knowledge of English grammar - even a "love" of
it - has been helpful in my understanding of Shakespeare.
m
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From: Terence Hawkes <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 13:15:38 -0400
Subject: Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Comment: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
William Sutton announces that
'No Theory has ever helped me understand Shakespeare'
Come, come. The capacity for involvement in any way of life -and so
language- derives from and depends upon abstract, systematised
'theoretical' knowledge --usually maintained outside awareness-- of how
its procedures work. If you've ever read a page of Shakespeare, or
attended any performance of any of his plays without absolute
incomprehension, then you've done so as result of a theory. To be human
is to be a theorist.
T. Hawkes
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From: Christopher Moore <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Monday, 21 Jul 2003 11:03:04 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Comment: Re: SHK 14.1477 Re: Bloom on Hamlet
Wonderful, William.
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