> For Foucault, I believe that he thinks that as theorists
> we are both within and without, subject and object.
This just brought to mind the latest book edited by H. Aram Veeser,
entitled _Confessions of the Critics_. The book attempts to engage the
subjective presence of the critic in contemporary theoretical writing
about texts. I wrote a paper about Stephen Greenblatt's subject/object
positioning in his criticism (with its long-ago noted large amounts of
semi-autobiography). The paper, in a convenient wrinkle for
demonstrating the potential interest in this topic for this group was
inspired in part by Frank Lentricchia's (I hope my invocation of the name
doesn't ruin the vibe too much around here) piece "Foucault's Legacy - A New
Historicism?" in a previous Veeser-edited volume entitled _The New
Historicism_ (how can you turn down a book whose closing essay is a piece
by Stanley Fish called "The Young and the Restless"?).
I thought the list might like to talk about this [constructed artifice
of a] binarism between subject and object and how the various writings in
_Confessions of the Critics_ play out this theme. And, perhaps more to
the point, see why it is that Foucault's name is brought into play in
this particular context.
-Bayard
"You can pin and mount me
Like a butterfly"
-Morrissey, some Smiths song (aka "Reel
Around the Fountain")
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> we are both within and without, subject and object.
This just brought to mind the latest book edited by H. Aram Veeser,
entitled _Confessions of the Critics_. The book attempts to engage the
subjective presence of the critic in contemporary theoretical writing
about texts. I wrote a paper about Stephen Greenblatt's subject/object
positioning in his criticism (with its long-ago noted large amounts of
semi-autobiography). The paper, in a convenient wrinkle for
demonstrating the potential interest in this topic for this group was
inspired in part by Frank Lentricchia's (I hope my invocation of the name
doesn't ruin the vibe too much around here) piece "Foucault's Legacy - A New
Historicism?" in a previous Veeser-edited volume entitled _The New
Historicism_ (how can you turn down a book whose closing essay is a piece
by Stanley Fish called "The Young and the Restless"?).
I thought the list might like to talk about this [constructed artifice
of a] binarism between subject and object and how the various writings in
_Confessions of the Critics_ play out this theme. And, perhaps more to
the point, see why it is that Foucault's name is brought into play in
this particular context.
-Bayard
"You can pin and mount me
Like a butterfly"
-Morrissey, some Smiths song (aka "Reel
Around the Fountain")
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