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...place of such a limited conception of the essayistic form, D’Agata advocated for a different critical interpretation??the essay...
...aesthetic mode. Aesthetics are value judgments about the world, about its beauty, its form, its order. There is a simple pleasure in pure appreciation without any justification—what Susan Sontag called the “erotics of art” in her “Against Interpretation??—but this too is part of the cloud of values and its modes of looking and observation...
...naked body. She goes on to say, “You never know, you could have a decent little pecker when you get older.” Though there are many such disturbing scenes throughout the novel, they are often presented without any explication or means of interpretation??completely orphaned by the story at large.“Huge” is, at its heart, the story of Genie’s quest to come to terms with his reality and the world around him. One of the keywords he’s picked up after a spate...
...abandoned in favour of willy-nilly consensus building! The very purpose of any committee—to encourage safely contained confrontation—would be undermined completely if the objective suddenly became finding ways to agree about things. Worse still, a lack of vote tallies leaves some room for interpretation??those who rely on committees to make decisions for them might have to decide things for themselves. That would sink the Harvard administration once...
...nicknames. According to Ogryzkov, the bell known as “Famine, Pestilence, and Despair,” was likely rung during the hard fasts of Lent. Ogryzkov said that while some of the nicknames correlate with their historic uses, a certain amount of “poetical interpretation?? took place after they transferred to Harvard...