[lit-ideas] Re: Purpose of the "Literature and Ideas" List with the Digest an...
- From: JimKandJulieB@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 07:51:29 EDT
I propose a thorough chapter by chapter examination and discussion of
Heideggar's "Being and Time, w/ all participating philosophers keeping in mind
that
any new thoughts they have on the subject might be seen by other people who
have access to the web. The last thing we want to use the internet for is
exchange of new ideas.
I further propose a chapter by chapter examination of War and Peace for the
literary members of the list, w/ the above stated conditions.
Or, we could start with "It was a dark and stormy night...."
Julie Krueger
(oh my god this might be read on the archives by someone. perhaps I should
assume a new identity. Sponge Bob!)
========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Purpose of the
"Literature and Ideas" List with the Digest and Archive Date: 7/29/06 5:28:51
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Frances with thanks to listers...
This online list called "Literature and Ideas" is seemingly free and
open to the internet public at large who wish to enter its portal, and
with little invite or limit. There is clearly however a stated
guideline of rules for this list as issued by its owners and managers.
The purpose of the list, in regard to those rules relevant or
pertinent to my interests and as understood in rough summary by me, is
that it should be used responsibly as a learned forum to discuss
topical ideas in relation to "published" literary writings, where such
literature is deemed to be in the form of both fictional and
nonfictional works. The broad literary ideas under discussion could
presumably be "within" the writings or "about" the writings, where
such writings are held to variously be statements in texts or
narratives in documents or discourses in manuscripts.
Many of the messages posted however often appear atopical and even
trivial or silly to me. This makes the storage of messages in the list
archive bulky, and the retrieval of messages from the list archive for
reasons of say research very cumbersome. This thorny issue no doubt
has likely surfaced here in the past before my time, but in light of
recent flows it may justify resurrection.
Without suggesting any kind of censored policing of "appropriate"
messages posted to the list, some sort of voluntary process or
protocol might nonetheless now be warranted, at least to serve the
interests of those listers who may wish to follow a somewhat narrower
threaded path when discussing topical subjects or special themes in
keeping with the stated purpose of the list as to what is acceptable.
This list after all is a valued resource, and ought not be disused or
abused or misused, for reasons that for example would be clearly
outside either the general purpose of the list or any special topic on
the list that is trying to stay within that purpose.
My fear is that my stance in this regard may be overstating the case,
but then perhaps not. In any event, any suggestion or correction to
this position would be welcome. My motive here is not to bypass or
overstep the list authorities, but to be better informed by listers
who might share my particular scholarly interests in "sign" theory.
Those interests partly include the comparison of angloamerican
philology and semiotics with francoeuropean semiology and
structuralism, and the application of such "sign" theory to the field
of "literature" both as humanal art in the fictional and philosophic
manner, and as nonart in the technical or scientific manner. Other
lists such as the Dewey List and the Peirce List and the Aesthetics
List do of course provide some satisfaction.
Another problem is whether learned scholars in academia are prepared
to share their coveted ideas in websites on the internet that are
accessed virtually at will by the public; but that is a further topic,
and there is certainly enough in this present message to discuss.
Frances Kelly, City of Toronto
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