tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post1858291595548851758..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: SelfJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-33987129555514981532014-10-30T09:04:21.016-05:002014-10-30T09:04:21.016-05:00Actually this Vallejo paper I am currently sufferi...Actually this Vallejo paper I am currently suffering over is about this. There are several interlocking issues and perhaps I should start blogging about them. I mean, I guess I will start blogging about them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-6282093337741795742014-10-29T09:07:34.411-05:002014-10-29T09:07:34.411-05:00I actually had this argument with my grad students...I actually had this argument with my grad students a few years back. <br /><br />I said: you accept any kind of contextualization, any kind of historical explanation, but you say that biography is out of bounds. Why? <br /><br />They came back at me with the standard explanations of why you can't use biography, that we all know about. <br /><br />Then I came back with "but you accept Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-80924522112410847412014-10-29T07:53:19.968-05:002014-10-29T07:53:19.968-05:00All this is true. But, at the most basic level, i...All this is true. But, at the most basic level, if Fernando de los Rios had dropped him off in Paris or London, rather than New York, Poeta en Nueva York would not exist, or the book he would have written would be different, perhaps quite different (and have a different title!). And if he had been born and grown up in Santander, rather than Granada, it's hard to imagine that Divan del el curioso impertinentehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06015557020840066635noreply@blogger.com