reify and lit crit
I used this word in a class last night, meaning something like "render real" (e.g., architecture reifying geometric design), and a student challenged my use.She said "reify" means " render dominant"....
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Plato?I'm trying to have a serious philosophical discussion and you bring up the Beetle Bailey comic strip. Wait, oh I get it. Actually the physical world is an expression of the universal and eternal...
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Since murky neo-Marxist ideas about privilege and consciousness denounce the reality of value, perhaps the notion of "reify" was incorrectly used to describe the "mistake" of attributing real...
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From this thread I gather that "Literary Criticism" is some kind of scholarly discipline. I'm not sure what a "scholarly discipline" is, mind --- would "anything you can get a doctoral degree in" be...
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Quote:I'm not sure what a "scholarly discipline" is, mind --- would "anything you can get a doctoral degree in" be an adequate contemporary definition? Nowadays I think that might include graphology,...
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Lionello, you might find these links useful:www.bartleby.com/65/cr/criticis.htmlen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism
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I have never had the occasion to use the word in speech but I have seen it in print several times. I never looked up the definition, assuming instead that it came from the Latin "re" and it meant "to...
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what is "Literary Criticism", and what does a Doctor of Literary Criticism do? I studied "literary criticism" for a while. It involved reading books and, by producing convincing arguments and by...
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Hooray! Eliza's back!That is to say, she re-reified her presence.
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"Seriously, don't let the fact that she's got a doctorate cause you to ignore the possibility that she's simply mistaken."My sentiments exactly, Dr. T.I encounter/interact with the "well-educated"...
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I think that most people, most of the time, infer the meaning of new words from context, and rarely check their understanding against dictionaries. In the case of the rebbe's student, a concept or...
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If by inference we mean the act or process of deriving a conclusion based solely on what one already knows(Wikipedia) then perhaps NW had no compelling reason to check the accuracy of his inferences....
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A most interesting thread from many angles.Thanks to all of you for lightening my darkness.I had a friend who, long ago, studied for a degree in English. She admitted that she didn't even read many of...
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Or, as the mighty Aristarchus (Richard Bentley) was made to vaunt:Turn what they will to verse, their toil is vain,Critics like me shall make it prose again!
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Surely this must be putting the cart before the horse. You can hardly have an abstraction without the thing from which it is abstracted. YES, "MAKE IT REAL" I was trying to hint on another thread that...
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Alfred Korzybski 18791950 (Science and Sanity: 1933)Karl Marx 1818-1883 (Communist Manifesto: 1848, Das Kapital: 1867)if it did not exist before Marxist,s coined it, then it would not have been easily...
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I would note that the way I see reify defined and the way I use it are contrary to way that Dr. T has efficiently translated Marx's term. Here, I think "thingification", though clumsy, actually...
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I agree that the Marxist usage is pretty different from what I think of on those rare occasions when I use the word; my sense of it is more like yours, rebbe."Objectification" would seem to be a...
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