/lit/ - Literature

>>8512710
FOXE hha

>jargon
>power relations/any Foucault
>"piece from hundreds of years ago" as it relates to "modern day homosexuality/gender/race"

That pretty much covers it for everyone in one way or another, I think. Why not just have a paper writing general?

I just did one on mutilation as a form of agency-granting liberation on Titus Andronicus. How well do you feel that idea works?

>>8512727
Foucault is not about buzzwords such as "power relations." The problem is with his readers, apparently including you.

>>8512727
>"piece from hundreds of years ago" as it relates to "modern day homosexuality/gender/race"
this is the big/obvious one

why do we orient history relative to ourselves, rather than orient ourselves relative to history? its pure arrogance

>>8512727
You're probably right, I wrote a ~10 page essay on gender linguistics and youths mimicking pornographic discourse to play with and assert their social gender in German because I had a nazi dyke professor and it seemed like easy money
While it is observable that German youths are filthy-mouthed and insecure savages like everywhere else, I had to go through a fuck ton of deconstructivist masturbation to fill out the bibliography

>>8512732
There's nothing wrong with Foucault, mate, it's the people who cite him and base academic papers wholly around him to legitimize their own half baked ideas.

I'm in a children's literature course this semester and several critical pieces we've looked at alongside the books have mentioned him in about the same way to make wildly different points.

>>8512740
The former, history relative to us, is a progressive perspective, while the latter, us relative to history, is conservative. As such, different mouths will spout differently. Just keep a mind for both in your search for knowledge and Weltanschauung.

>>8512747
That seems like a pretty reasonable topic, and interesting to explore, honestly. You know what you're getting into from the beginning, and it's targeting a specific issue and the methods in which that issue reveals itself. Performative aspects of gender are interesting, it's the bait and switches in unrelated works that get me.

>>8512740
Thanks TS Eliot. But really, it's because (I think, at least) professors try to connect with students by comparing issues to modern examples. This results in them being unable to remove themselves from the present once they've graduated, because all they've learned how to do is refer to themselves in some way. It carries on to Academic careers as well. I bet the next generation of students in 20 years or so will be hopelessly entrenched in the now.

>he or she

>>8512795
I think it's because Tradition and the Individual Talent is a quotable essay, but the things it has to say on the poetic expression still holds ground inside legitimate literary writing, I mean that which is not jargon like this anon >>8512727 said

This is probably very niche, but I hate it when they use "precisely." It occurs a lot in theological papers to convey meaning or depth when there is none, or to explain why a contradiction isn't really a contradiction.

"...but it is PRECISELY because of this x that -x finds its meaning"

>>8512836
>singular they

>>8512912

>the gender is ambiguous
>she

>>8512795
I can paraphrase some of the transcripts and recorded dialogue I found from an unpublished upcoming book focused on a similar subject, it was cool and all but transcribing that recorded stuff sucked dick
There were boys hanging about after a football match and a dude 11-13 talked about one sleepover where his cousin or something had rubbed against him against his body and hinted at boku no pico stuff, and there was like a campaign trip where the KdF girls around the same age teased the boys saying they'd get raped by mosquitoes, and also a handful of young dudes talking about dick cheese

>>8512971
I mean, I received the material from a researcher that was actually a pretty cool guy*