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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A delight
A delightful satire of pomo presented as series of four academics who meet regularly at conferences to catch up on theory, life and the interweaving of both. What emerges is not only a semispoof on current academic pretentions but also four real characters (who are real "characters") doing life and time... Many "in" jokes also spice up the work, as...
Published on December 5, 2000
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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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If what's "just plain boring" is "the satire" here
then David Damrosch is Jonathan Swift. What the former apparently palms off on academic conferences, or thinks is the coin of that realm, is a mere adolescent perkiness that has little to do with Mind. Cancel all meetings.
Published on October 17, 2001
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9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A delight,
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This review is from: Meetings of the Mind (Hardcover)
A delightful satire of pomo presented as series of four academics who meet regularly at conferences to catch up on theory, life and the interweaving of both. What emerges is not only a semispoof on current academic pretentions but also four real characters (who are real "characters") doing life and time... Many "in" jokes also spice up the work, as well as real litcrit figures. The only complaint I had was the at times draggy mono/dialogues when the theorizing got no longer satiric but just plain boring (of course that is only one textual reading....maybe the boring was part of the satire?) Anyway, worth a read for le jouissance!
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
If what's "just plain boring" is "the satire" here,
By A Customer
This review is from: Meetings of the Mind (Hardcover)
then David Damrosch is Jonathan Swift. What the former apparently palms off on academic conferences, or thinks is the coin of that realm, is a mere adolescent perkiness that has little to do with Mind. Cancel all meetings.
2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
If what's "just plain boring" is "the satire" here,
By A Customer
This review is from: Meetings of the Mind (Hardcover)
then David Damrosch is Jonathan Swift. What the former apparently palms off on academic conferences, or thinks is the coin of that realm, is a mere adolescent perkiness that has little to do with Mind. Cancel all meetings.
1 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
if what is "just plain boring" here is satire,,
By A Customer
This review is from: Meetings of the Mind (Hardcover)
then David Damrosch is Jonathan Swift. This book flaunts the couraqe--the mistake--of a second-rate intellect who has persuaded himself, and a university press, that the pertness he palms off on academic conferences has something to do with Mind. The discerning reader will cancel all meetings.
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