/lit/ - Literature

>>9708488
I mean, I'm being generous. From my talks with people in academia that do queer readings of Hemingway, they usually focus on the queerness of his writings and try to avoid biographical information as much as possible. Of course, people outside of academia have a hard time distinguishing the difference, and there are some people that like reading biographical info into books, but they're usually not taken as seriously.

I do think that one problem with academia right now is that you'll probably find a queer reading of any author you can imagine published by somebody, not because of some sinister SJW plot to rewrite the Western canon, but rather just because of the incentive to publish to get tenured positions. If you're the first to publish a queer reading of a famous author, that looks good on your CV. I'm not trying to discredit all queer readings. A lot, especially with an author like Hemingway are pretty convincing, and even in mostly heteronormative texts, it's worthwhile reading against the grain. It's just frustrating that getting published in academia is largely dependent on being the first to do "X" reading of "Y" regardless of the quality of the reading. A lot of queer theory readings are really compelling, even if the theory isn't my personal wheel-house, but it's clear that a lot of things are published to be placeholders on CVs.

>>9396626
I think my mom assumed the current translation would be identical to the supposed Ur New Testament in Hebrew.

I know my mom loves getting closer to the "original intended meaning" of the Bible, so I recommended she read an essay that Agamben wrote about the letters of Paul, and how the fact that he primarily spoke Greek shaped his understanding pretty heavily of the Old Testament. She just got really upset at the suggestion that Paul spoke anything but Hebrew. It was really awkward considering that Jesus probably just spoke Aramaic and I guess, whatever language God speaks. God's language isn't canonically identical to Hebrew, correct? From the criticism that I have read, even if Hebrew is seen as a privileged and sacred language, it emerges after the Tower of Babel and is distinct from God's own tongue, correct?

Anyway that was the day I learned I couldn't talk about the Bible, even if I was enthusiastic about it with my mom, because she has her own head-canon that doesn't correlate to any scholarly or even denominational doctrine.