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indylandia

11 months ago

i wish you guys could see the progress im making on this wii page ....

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indylandia strawbebby228

11 months ago

this site is whats blowing my mind today! i love how interactive your space is

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strawbebby228 11 months ago

Thank you ♡

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10kph bookbug

11 months ago

hiiiii :~) i would also like to join next month! here's my page https://10kph.neocities.org/logs/bookbug/ yippee! really excited about this, super cool idea btw <3

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bookbug 11 months ago

hiii ʚ₍ᐢ. .ᐢ₎ɞ lovely to have you!! just added you to the member's list! happy reading - maple

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vashti 11 months ago

Just checked out your page; It's so sleek! I dig the layout / design :-) Happy you're joining in on the fun.

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410 bookbug

11 months ago

hi :-) i'd love to join next month!!! awesome cute job on the site so far.....here's my page: https://kengo.neocities.org/bookbug

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bookbug 11 months ago

hi! so happy you are joining - just added you to the member's list! ♡₊˚⊹ - maple

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vashti 11 months ago

Yayyyy, I'm so happy you're joining! I hope you & I can develop our reading muscles ᕦ(ò_óˇ)ᕤ

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indylandia

11 months ago

working on a wii themed neocities interface ... keep ur eyes peeled

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bookbug updated bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

11 months ago

bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

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indylandia glitchedguts

11 months ago

Your page is so inspiring! Tysm for following back

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thebookring updated The Book Ring | The Webring For Bibliophile...

11 months ago

The Book Ring | The Webring For Bibliophiles on the Small Web

indylandia updated Under Maintenance

11 months ago

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indylandia

11 months ago

I GOT AN A ON MY ANNA KARENINA PAPER GUYSSSS

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dulcesilly 11 months ago

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the0bserver bookbug

11 months ago

I'm making a bookbug page: https://the0bserver.neocities.org/bookbug . Decided to participate too and this made me work on my site that was idle since 2022

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bookbug 11 months ago

Happy you're joining & that it brought you out of retirement! Do you have a button we can link you with? The one on your homepage won't load.

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bookbug 11 months ago

If not we can use a text link- Vashti

the0bserver 11 months ago

I fixed the code of the image on my homepage, I think is working now. The link of the button it's this https://i.imgur.com/nrWeEzY.png

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bookbug 11 months ago

just added you to the member list! thanks for joining <3 - maple

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readingproject suboptimalism

11 months ago

On the blue curtain question. Think of reading as like directing a Shakespeare play. Each performance is different and modern performances would be nothing like those staged in Shakespeare's era. That's because the director (or the reader who reads a book) brings their own experience and context to the text. As in Reader Response theory: the reader writes. A text only exists in the act of its being interpreted

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readingproject 11 months ago

You're right: the idea that an author holds a secret which we try to guess is simplistic. I used to write sample pieces for students as part of creative writing to demonstrate this (because they had the "author" in the classroom, so we could overcome that part of the issue)

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readingproject 11 months ago

Students invariably interpreted my writing in ways I didn't expect. It was great

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suboptimalism 11 months ago

that piece was inspired by a similar experience - someone read something i wrote and had an interpretation i hadn't thought of at all, but that struck me as equally valid

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letslearntogether 11 months ago

Fascinating article and conversation! I've had similar experiences. Funnily enough, interpretation of spiritual texts (i.e.: the field of "hermeneutics") actually discourages people from reading their own meaning into passages ("eisegesis") versus trying to understand what the author was attempting to convey specifically ("exegesis").

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letslearntogether 11 months ago

Where it gets really interesting is when considering how personal approach and social application relate. Is it a story with layer upon layer of metaphor or is it intended to be a legal framework that people live by? What if it is both simultaneously? These questions are not always easily answered.

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saddleblasters 11 months ago

The interplay between author's intention and the reader's personal experience is such a fascinating topic, and it always seems like there's something new to be said about it. Two ideas that come to mind from a literary theory course I took are (1) Foucault's author function, where he replaces the author with something more abstract,

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saddleblasters 11 months ago

and (2) wolfgang iser's theory that the world in the readers mind comes into existence precisely when there are gaps in the author's text. I.e. the power of fiction is completely derived from its subjectivity and openness to interpretation.

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saddleblasters 11 months ago

References for anyone interested: https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Foucault_Author.pdf https://www.jstor.org/stable/468316

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saddleblasters 11 months ago

I find the foucault essay kind of hard to follow, but it was very influential. Iser's perspective was very memorable to me and has been a big influence on how I think about both reading and writing

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suboptimalism 11 months ago

if i recall correctly i was inspired by something i read in the "polemical introduction" of frye's "anatomy of criticism" while on 3 cups of coffee. can't promise anyone else will be able to find what i did in it, though. still have to go back and finish the rest sometime too.

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readingproject 10 months ago

Think I've found it - from Frye: "The absurd quantum formula of criticism, the assertion that the critic should confine himself to 'getting out' of a poem exactly what the poet may vaguely be assumed to have been aware of 'putting in', is one of the many slovenly illiteracies that the absence of systematic criticism has allowed to grow up . . .

readingproject 10 months ago

". . . That is, the critic is assumed to have no conceptual framework: it is simply his job to make a poem into which a poet has diligently stuffed a specific number of beauties or effects, and complacently extract them one by one, like his prototype Little Jack Horner."

bookbug updated bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

11 months ago

bookbug bookclub ✧˖°

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bookbug 11 months ago

Added three new members- Vashti!

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indylandia

11 months ago

done with exams... i'll probably be less active bc i got nothing to procrastinate anymore

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cyberneticdryad bookbug

11 months ago

I'm still making decorative decisions, but I made a bookbug page to join in next month! https://cyberneticdryad.neocities.org/home/library/bookbug

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inkcaps 11 months ago

Yay yay I'm happy you're joining! :D

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bookbug 11 months ago

Added you to the page! ~Vashti :-)

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