tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post8305506749774274513..comments2023-09-07T04:49:10.648-07:00Comments on Literature and the Contemporary: House of LeavesAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-65285649031484720662011-04-17T08:03:17.500-07:002011-04-17T08:03:17.500-07:00Conceptually this makes a great deal of sense: ra...Conceptually this makes a great deal of sense: rape relates to the themes of history and repression in many ways. First, as you state, it is often repressed. Second, it is certainly formative to the lives of victims. Third, it is metaphorically connected to Danielewski's (often repressed) interest in genocide, slavery, colonization, etc.: rape is to individuals what these things are to peoples or to nations.<br /><br />So this was a productive approach, but I'm not crazy about your execution of it. Rather than reading through the quote as if it applies directly or primarily to rape, you might have picked an additional passage (as you were supposed to do), and showed how that passages direct concern (presumably) with rape can be understood better through the more general problems of history and reliability which the passage deals with.<br /><br />Also, I wanted to see you do more with Borges here.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-32636012121405325772011-04-16T19:09:52.448-07:002011-04-16T19:09:52.448-07:00I think you did a great job of having one idea it ...I think you did a great job of having one idea it was a good essay in terms of unity. however, i think the view is too narrow to talk just about the topic of rape. <br />I see that you say a lot that quotes that is used in the House of Leaves can be read in multiple ways. how else can you interpret the quotes and which part of the book does it relate to?<br />also I think it would be great if you expand on the idea of Danielewski trying to write a book like a labyrinth and try to give examples of those different ways that you think he was trying to present.Ae-Ree Choihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04330729447696434433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8785065039608350318.post-35024771452966447172011-04-15T22:38:28.132-07:002011-04-15T22:38:28.132-07:00You did what I tried to do as well and show that t...You did what I tried to do as well and show that the Don Quixote quote refers to repression throughout this book. It would've been nice to see more examples of how this happened. <br /><br />There is no part here, however, of how another specific passage can be looked at differently in terms of the new discovery of what it means that Danielewski has inserted Borges' Pierre Menard comparison. <br /><br />Also, why did Danielewski insert this quote? How is it relevant to the story as a whole?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com