The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 18.0156 Saturday, 17 February 2007
[1] From: Joseph Egert <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 23:38:38 +0000
Subj: RE: SHK 18.0151 A Question
[2] From: David Lindley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 16 Feb 2007 00:04:25 -0000
Subj: RE: SHK 18.0151 A Question
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From: Joseph Egert <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 15 Feb 2007 23:38:38 +0000
Subject: 18.0151 A Question
Comment: RE: SHK 18.0151 A Question
The eminence vive of Cardiff has struck again, with delicious irony (and
a suppressed wish, perhaps):
>To meet the point I have arranged, by
>magical means, that the following passage will immediately appear in
>all past, current and future editions of my Shakespeare in the
>Present.
But Professor, should we expect less? How does it go: "He who controls
the present..." Careful, Professor. In the now-to-come, you may yet
rue what you have wrought. How long before your jazz riffs turn to
noise, your descants to midnight chimes? Will it be too late then for
redemption? Will we still care what we leave behind? Once again, Terry
Hawkes, how many fingers?
As for John Drakakis, I urge those still interested to review the
interchange and discover who has labeled whom "reactionary" (a confusion
of identities?), who has refused and still refuses to define said label,
who has refused and still refuses to clarify what he means by
"Enlightenment" and now "liberal" and "conservative"---yet more floating
signifiers. Does Babel approach, or has it already arrived?
Regards from the bridge,
Joe Egert
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From: David Lindley <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Friday, 16 Feb 2007 00:04:25 -0000
Subject: 18.0151 A Question
Comment: RE: SHK 18.0151 A Question
Quoting John Drakakis: '"presentism" is a relatively new concept'
Well, it's a new name, or label, anyway - how far the concept is
actually 'new' is something we might debate in the roundtable
discussion. (Which is where I would have thought quite a lot of the
comments on this thread might profitably have been sent.)
David Lindley
[Editor's Note:
As David Lindley notes above, many of the comments that have appeared in
this thread more properly belong in the Roundtable discussion, a
sentiment I expressed as well a few days ago. In fact, I have convinced
one poster this week to permit his remarks to be included in the
upcoming Roundtable digest. True, Roundtable digests arrive only once
per week as opposed to three to fives times per week, but for the time
being I urge patience. Should the once per week format not turn out to
be appropriate, I will reconsider Roundtable procedures. One of the many
reasons for weekly distribution is not to over-burden the Guest
Moderator, a volunteer who remains an active scholar-professor.
As for me, editing the daily digests has become an inextricable part of
my life, granted a very time consuming part of it that has impacted
negatively on my own scholarly output but a sacrifice I have been
willing to make for a long time now.
I have considered on numerous occasions adding another feature to
SHAKSPER: a weekly, bi-monthly, or monthly Dump-on-Post-Modernism
Session. The idea would be that every Thursday or every other Thursday,
for example, I would, after issuing an ongoing invitation to do so,
gather all posts that express a distain for any critical or theoretical
approach that has been employed since the mid-1960s. Such a feature
would provide an outlet for those who are frustrated with the current
state of academic discourse to vent. -HMC]
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