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...their core, these are conflicting messages: we are a generation simultaneously burdened and enlivened by history, by questioning, by the real fight. And then I turn over the final index cards. There are two: "One person can never find complete fullness in himself [or herself] alone," writes Mikhail Bakhtin. It is in relationships that fullness occurs, in the relationships we create and that create us. And with Annie Dillard I rejoice: "Life gets your blood going, and it smells good." At the threshold of change, with the nuances and relationships of four years piled high around us, we're filled...
Yoon first failed to see the sophisticated argument taking place behind this parody; it was a kind of "meta-editorial," if you will. He also failed to recognize that my parody was an embodiment of the laughter of the Bakhtinian carnivalesque, a laughter which observes few limits (as Bakhtin scholars Gary Saul Morson and Caryl Emerson have pointed out). In fact, this irreverent Bakhtinian laughter is what our good friends Beavis and Butthead draw on so liberally...
...genuflect before the gods of post modernism--Bakhtin, Derrida, Lyotard, Lacan--or if you've been accompanying Umberto Eco during his walks in the fictional woods, you may want to take a look at this novel for its oppositional stance. Otherwise, you would be well advised to stay clear...
Jaron R. Bourke '89, a literature major, won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis titled, "Presenting History and Historicizing the Present: Bakhtin and His World of Language, Ideology, and Interpretation," an analysis of the works of the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin...
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