Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1998 19:36:49 -0500 (CDT) From: hijinks-AT-utarlg.uta.edu Subject: Re: Where oh where, malgosia? Funny, I never mentioned the field of rhetoric as an area of study. (Which raises the question of how you know my area of study...) I merely pointed out your ignorance of something taught in a generic freshman composition course. Thanks for tipping your hand about what is really motivating you. ;-) --tjr On Mon, 20 Jul 1998, malgosia askanas wrote: > Dear TJR, you must be getting pretty tired. What, if I read the textbooks > in your own glorious area of study then I would find Lacan useful? Or, > I cannot judge Lacan's usefulness to me unless I've read the textbooks > in your own glorious area of study? Sorry. I am not in the same area of > study as you and yes, the world is full of things that I find much more > useful than either Lacan or Adorno. In addition, I find Adorno less useless > than Lacan, Lukacs more useless than Adorno, and Benjamin very useful. > Moreover, I love E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gogol, Harry Partch, and Hollis Frampton. > Also, I can't stand Schumann. All of this without having read one sentence > of any rhetoric textbook. But I have no doubt that if I read such a textbook > I would be a completely different person. > > -m > > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- > > --- from list nietzsche-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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