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Sb70012 Posted 12 years ago
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An erotics of art
Yet despite some last-minute disclaimers that she is not condemning all critical commentary and some advice to critics to pay more attention to form, it is difficult to escape the conclusion that in her opinion interpretation impoverishes art and that its practice for a number of decades by most academic and professional critics had been unquestionably harmful. She concluded with the pronouncement that "in place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art."
(Note: It's talking about Susan Sontag who believed interpreting and criticizing literature, destroys it. She was against the criticism.)
Source: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature Fifth Edition by Wilfred L. Guerin
I can't understand the blue part. it does not make sense to me to use the article [an] with a plural noun [erotics].
It even does not make sense to me that why the word [erotics] has been used with a plural for.
Would you please be kind enough to clarify the blue part to me?
Many thank
(Note: It's talking about Susan Sontag who believed interpreting and criticizing literature, destroys it. She was against the criticism.)
Source: A Handbook of Critical Approaches to Literature Fifth Edition by Wilfred L. Guerin
I can't understand the blue part. it does not make sense to me to use the article [an] with a plural noun [erotics].
It even does not make sense to me that why the word [erotics] has been used with a plural for.
Would you please be kind enough to clarify the blue part to me?
Many thank
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Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with the interpretation of literature. It is a word that can be treated as either singular or plural. Sontag has chosen to treat it as singular.
- Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with the interpretation of literature.
- It is a word that can be treated as either singular or plural.
- Sontag has chosen to treat it as singular.
- Hence, the indefinite article.
- She has coined the term erotics as a kind of parallel to the word hermeneutics.
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Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with the interpretation of literature.
It is a word that can be treated as either singular or plural. Sontag has chosen to treat it as singular. Hence, the indefinite article.
She has coined the term erotics as a kind of pa
It is a word that can be treated as either singular or plural. Sontag has chosen to treat it as singular. Hence, the indefinite article.
She has coined the term erotics as a kind of pa
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Clivewe should have a branch of knowledge that deals with the erotic aspects of art.CliveDo you mean sexually emotions or passions? To me it's irrelevant that why she has use the word "erotic"
Does she talk on the basis of sexual interpretations?
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I myself got a conclusion:Personally I think she has been sarcastic by saying that because she hates interpretation and criticism. As you knowerotic feelings and thoughts provoke and create exciting emotions and maybe make you think emotionally about something.In my opinion, by saying that, she has been sarcastic and she wants to say "from now, we need to have hundreds of methods in order to inte
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I don't know enough about Sontag and her opinions to comment further. I note that your paragraph itself is largely Guerin's opinions about Sontag's opinions.
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