Tuesday, September 18, 2007

The dangerours approach.

It seems as if, from reading this text that the author brings alot of stability; to a learning enviroment overall. The way he or she does that, is by establishing a certain position for an author; based upon his status. This gives the author crediblity, in ways that it is hard to challenge any of their work. The author of this text in Theory Toolbox, speaks about natural fact and how they are interpreted. Where there are actual evidence for a specific idea, it seems to be still based on theory. Then he goes further along, to explain that theories; although they may seem to be faulty at times, seems to be hard to challenge without falling in its category. This alone applies to the concept of authors, and how we view their opinions as a reliable source. Discourse find its way right along this section, since it seems to deal with alot of exchanged ideas that amounts to not just debates, but different views overlaped on the other. Discourse could be dangerous to those who want to maintain control, and when I say control; I mean in charge of a cycle that we may consider to be legit information. In this course we have been recently speaking, about those we consider to be Literary Critics. These are the group of people, that decides what have meaning or not. The following group of individual could fall under this category and they are, Scholars, Experts, Teachers, Academia, The Goverment, and The Media. What discourse does, is challenge that authority, by bringing in new ideas; that was further developed during the process of analyzing previous work.

1 comment:

Emily Easton said...

TH: Are you one behind on the blog questions? This is a good summary of both the reading and our in class discussions, but, not the assignment for this week. :EE