Thanks, it took a while. It's very hard to simply these ideas and have them
make sense.
>For most people it's either a slippery slope leading to an abstract,
>a-lingual trance or it's an arguement in a box.
What's unfortuante is that a great deal of work is created that assumes
knowledge of postmodernism. Walk into any museum of modern art and you are
confronted with this dialogue, and if you don't understand you are alienated
from it.
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>I agree with your definition and would add the following. Discourses not
>only include works of art, literature and historical texts, but also the
>conditions, environment under which they are read *and* the people who
>are reading them. This takes into account the re-telling of a text and
>the re-reading of a text.
Absolutely. What your refering to are "meta narratives" narratives about
narratives. This gets a bit difficult to completely understand, but once you
get the basic idea it makes sense.
>Discourse can also refer to any conversation, series of gestures, series
>of images.....uh-oh.....slipping....down....the......slope........*
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>Richard Shechner calls this re-remembering. (kind of a silly word,
>really) in his book "Between Theatre and Anthropology"
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Bill Godby
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