On anachronism in literary analysis
@gadgetgirl02 wrote: "Austen was a game theorist" reminds me of the James Thurber story where the narrator reinvents Macbeth as a murder mystery for a lady of very particular reading habits. Read full...
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@jhbadger wrote: But sometimes authors can really put things in books without really realizing it. The late, great computer scientist Alan Perlis once said "The best book on programming for the layman...
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@JohnAspinall wrote: I will squirrel away this line for future use: This is a perfectly valid statement, as long as we ignore the accepted meaning of most of the words it contains. Read full topic
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@gadgetgirl02 wrote: Okay, yes, but all of those things depend upon interpretation, not the taken-at-face-value content. And if you think the difference doesn't matter, talk to any fiction writer who...
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@Kimmo wrote: Stopped reading here: That’s the latest gambit in the brave new world of “consilience,” the idea that we can overcome the split between “the two cultures” by bringing art and science...
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