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Catttt Posted 10 years ago
Vocabulary
vagaries of experience
1. Does "put to work" here mean "to use" or "to make it work" ?
2. Does "open up closures around" mean "to obviate the problems existing on the path of"?
3. Does the highlighted section after the colon explain "what it might mean to experience a work of art" (i.e. to experience a work of art is like opening up the meanings of experience to the processes of writing, and, by the same token, opening up the processes of writing to the vagaries of experience.)?
4. What does "vagaries" mean here?
Love takes as her point of focus the ‘experience’ of the work of art and attempts to put experience to work in her text in order to open up closures around art production and interpretation [. . .] Love attempts to write with the experience of art in order to capture in her writing what it might mean to experience a work of art: to open up the meanings of experience to the processes of writing, and, by the same token, to open up the processes of writing to the vagaries of experience.
2. Does "open up closures around" mean "to obviate the problems existing on the path of"?
3. Does the highlighted section after the colon explain "what it might mean to experience a work of art" (i.e. to experience a work of art is like opening up the meanings of experience to the processes of writing, and, by the same token, opening up the processes of writing to the vagaries of experience.)?
4. What does "vagaries" mean here?
Love takes as her point of focus the ‘experience’ of the work of art and attempts to put experience to work in her text in order to open up closures around art production and interpretation [. . .] Love attempts to write with the experience of art in order to capture in her writing what it might mean to experience a work of art: to open up the meanings of experience to the processes of writing, and, by the same token, to open up the processes of writing to the vagaries of experience.
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1. put experience to work = make use of the 'experience' to argue certain things 2. open up closures = open up various topics for further ideas (which had been thought by people to be settled ('closed') with little more to say) 3.
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- put experience to work = make use of the 'experience' to argue certain things 2.
- open up closures = open up various topics for further ideas (which had been thought by people to be settled ('closed') with little more to say) 3.
- The highlighted sections refers to 'capture in her writing what it might mean to experience a work of art' - that is, learn to put experience on paper and in so doing change how we write on paper about anything (not just art).
- Just my views; others may have other or further suggestions...
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1. put experience to work = make use of the 'experience' to argue certain things
2. open up closures = open up various topics for further ideas (which had been thought by people to be settled ('closed') with little more to say)
3. The highlighted sections refers to 'capture in her writing what it might mean to experience a work of art' - that is, learn to put experience on paper and in so
2. open up closures = open up various topics for further ideas (which had been thought by people to be settled ('closed') with little more to say)
3. The highlighted sections refers to 'capture in her writing what it might mean to experience a work of art' - that is, learn to put experience on paper and in so
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