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The following is from my Honors Lit Theory class:

"The perspective of the aesthetics of reception mediates between passive reception and active understanding, experience formative of norms, and new production. If the history of literature is viewed in this way within the horizon of a dialogue between work and audience that forms a continuity, the opposition between its aesthetic and its historical aspects is also continually mediated. Thus the thread from the past appearance to the present experience of literature, which historicism had cut, is tied back together.

...remind me why I'm an English major? *Tries to wade through twenty pages of this*

There will be SotP when I'm in class.

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[ashkitty.livejournal.com]

This is why I'm a medievalist. We don't have time for theory, we're still working out such fundamental questions about our canon as "When was it written" and "what do the words mean?"

[genaschuyler.livejournal.com]

*Snort* Oh, come on. Surely you can apply feminist critical theory to something like Beowulf? *Grin*