Friday, April 4, 2014

interpretation is not an isolated act, but takes place within a homeric battlefield, on which a host of interpretive options are either openly or implicitly in conflict
fredric jameson, the politcal unconscious: narrative as a socially symbolic act (1981) 
in french, jouissance (the surprise of orgasm, bliss, ecstasy) is distinguished from plaisir (pleasure)
interdisciplinarity is not the calm of an easy security; it begins effectively (as opposed to the mere expression of a pious wish) when the solidarity of the old disciplines breaks down - perhaps even violently, via the jolts of fashion - in the interests of a new object and a new language neither of which has a place in the field of the sciences that were to be brought peacefully together, this unease in classification being precisely the point from which it is possible to diagnose a certain mutation
roland barthes, from work to text (1971) 
in the multiplicity of writing, everything is to be disentangled, nothing deciphered
roland barthes, the death of the author (1967) 
the nature of bricolage is to make use of materials and tools that, unlike those of the engineer, for example, were not intended for the task in hand
gerard genette, strucutralism and literary criticism