tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post3197479754183925735..comments2024-03-10T23:01:51.493-05:00Comments on Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing: More APDJonathanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-34636608137026033762012-12-11T22:20:42.398-06:002012-12-11T22:20:42.398-06:00...not to be forgiven, yes, although they also too......not to be forgiven, yes, although they also took a lot of hits for being in said field at all, from what I can gather, as opposed to English, French, or German when not Classics.<br /><br />It is all very hard to tell. Soufas has a point, too, when he talks about influence of Fascism on 20th century literary studies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-40948809677399627272012-12-10T15:42:40.378-06:002012-12-10T15:42:40.378-06:00What about Gullón's Una poética para Antonio M...What about Gullón's <i>Una poética para Antonio Machado</i> Gredos, 1970. That's still a pretty hip book even today. <br /><br />But that's part of the point. People responsible for making my field boring are not to be forgiven. Someone told me at Wisconsin they studied poetry with Biruté and had to read APD's book, and then decided they hated contemporary Spanish poetry. Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-8860835078665465822012-12-10T10:20:57.745-06:002012-12-10T10:20:57.745-06:00Yes, "great" because introduced certain ...Yes, "great" because introduced certain poets and so on. But: could you publish in Gredos and so on in those days and not be boring? <br /><br />In French and English one could be spiffy and be admired or at least not voted off the island, but to work on Spain you had to be stodgy and pedantic even about interesting authors, or so it seemed to me back then.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-42445550237119223632012-12-10T03:44:34.549-06:002012-12-10T03:44:34.549-06:00I know you have issues with his work, but I really...I know you have issues with his work, but I really recommend you look at Steve Fuller's Thomas S. Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. It hammers Kuhn for precisely the sort of thing you are talking about here in the case of APD--including the ritualized invocation of the great figure and its importance for the formation of the field. As I've said before, his argument in many waysThomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-40302741257776112542012-12-09T20:49:23.070-06:002012-12-09T20:49:23.070-06:00"He was successful because he was mediocre.&q..."He was successful because he was mediocre."<br /><br />This is one of the harder issues in the whole system to figure out. And then there are successful people who aren't mediocre, so I thinks it must be allowed not to be! But there are costs sometimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-20164869418958719662012-12-09T17:07:43.094-06:002012-12-09T17:07:43.094-06:00That "emperor's new clothes" cogniti...That "emperor's new clothes" cognitive dissonance hit me hard. When I first found his books in the library as I was preparing my dissertation I realized he was a big guy in the field, but it was obvious to me that it wasn't good at all. Even as a Graduate Student beginning a dissertation. Then when I met him and he was so nice to me, I said, ok, fine. I will be his friend and IJonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-34899021227041042732012-12-09T16:51:00.897-06:002012-12-09T16:51:00.897-06:00The same person as you.
My own experience is wit...The same person as you. <br /><br />My own experience is with a family member who is mega hurt if disagreed with. I chose wrecking my career over disagreeing in print, basically ... had lots of reasons not to finish my Vallejo book but a big one was to avoid the discussion of why I wasn't going to give credence to the Larrea theories.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-28717436864547705892012-12-09T16:34:46.930-06:002012-12-09T16:34:46.930-06:00Are you talking of the same person I am, then? Or...Are you talking of the same person I am, then? Or of a case in your own experience that was similar? Jonathanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09371893596402673898noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1055932257464975902.post-18115420728336441562012-12-09T16:33:07.808-06:002012-12-09T16:33:07.808-06:00Well, this is where my cognitive dissonance comes ...Well, this is where my cognitive dissonance comes in. One was supposed to admire the work of this person but I would stare at it and stare, and see nothing in it. I thought there was something I was missing, and that I must be less bright than the others because I found work like this thin.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com