tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246807587659135063.post2385394539822203619..comments2023-07-17T09:38:06.328+01:00Comments on Phatic Workshop: The Phatic Turnaridedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05017410681019862805noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246807587659135063.post-43382177260449275952017-02-07T11:15:20.451+00:002017-02-07T11:15:20.451+00:00Pruning the whole text of this blog and our releva...Pruning the whole text of this blog and our relevant personal communications would take a lot of time. We could condense it by making the blog itself an online destination for future phaticists. Effectively, we would need to start improving our posts and laying pavement between different spots. <br /><br />First, I'd like to try e-mailing the anthropologist mentioned in the beginning of this post, linking him to some posts here that could interest him. *Soon the train stops and picks up new and more talkative characters. Travelers already on board lively up their conversation and offer seats to newcomers.* Semiophrenichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08194835635665729472noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246807587659135063.post-44602220572097776832017-02-05T23:56:40.003+00:002017-02-05T23:56:40.003+00:00Another Amazon reviewer comment:
"It's a...Another Amazon reviewer comment:<br /><br />"It's a reflection on many themes, but the central one is Melville's assumption that if, as the American dream has it, anyone can become anything he desires, who then can we still trust to be what he professes to be? Melville consequently tries to delude his readers too. There is not a single narrator for instance but many, and even that is not straightforward: you have to deduce from tiny details in the text which narrator is speaking in each of the 45 chapters."aridedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05017410681019862805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6246807587659135063.post-62990295819164406972017-02-05T23:16:36.351+00:002017-02-05T23:16:36.351+00:00Sounds great! I'll likely give it a try visua...Sounds great! I'll likely give it a try visually, using the Cmap tool I posted about.<br /><br />By the way, regarding our quite short train story, here's a short review of a book by Melville ("The Confidence Man"):<br /><br />"The notes and introduction in this Penguin edition are very useful. It helps a lot to know that some of the characters are versions of real people, including famous authors such as Emerson, Poe and Thoreau. Melville raises a lot of issues in theology and philosophy, as well as in relation to the direction he saw America taking at the time. I liked the idea of the riverboat as a microcosm of America and that the action all takes place on one day (April Fool's Day). Once midnight passes at the very end of the book, though, the day of deceptions is over and the emphasis changes."<br /><br />This sounds a bit similar to Bakhtin's idea of a "carnival". It's also interesting that Melville's group of characters at least somewhat intersects the group we're interested in (Poe is in both).<br /><br />In addition to "building up" e.g. by using a map, another approach would be to "strip down", taking the entire text of the blog and other relevant communications, putting it into some suitable place for editing, and trying to cut and rearrange until we have something that makes sense (with an annex for stuff that doesn't really belong).aridedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05017410681019862805noreply@blogger.com