Comments on: The zeitgeist of a story

By: MoJo

MoJo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:09:32 +0000

Hi, Heloise and welcome!

Aside: I do not know how my stupid blog ate my own comment. I know it was here, and now I can’t remember what I said.

*sigh*

By: Heloise

Heloise — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:45:50 +0000

Yes, yes, and yes. I was drawn to this blog entry by the cover of my favorite book of all time. The Wolf and The Dove. I will admit that I haven’t read it since I went to college and got all self actualized but do we really think all these shape changing were creatures humping ladies out in the woods won’t seem sort of ‘dated’ ten years from now? This is called mass market for a reason.

By: Dude

Dude — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 04:04:34 +0000

Dude is very annoyed by people who can’t spell a person’s name correctly.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:50:01 +0000

do we really think all these shape changing were creatures humping ladies out in the woods won’t seem sort of ‘dated’ ten years from now

And I have my theories on THAT, too, as it seems lately I’ve heard tell a few of the werebeasts have started to not fully shift into human before mating.

I’m wondering what that says about our time, right now.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:19:32 +0000

Robin, not ignoring your comment (thank you, by the way). I’m stewing it over in my head.

And yes, thank you for pointing out that legal rape is RIGHTFULLY desexualized and I wanted to make that distinction.

As for 80s hair and fashion, well, it was awesome THEN!

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:07:35 +0000

Huckleberry Finn because it’s “racist”

You know what? I thought about that very book and the hullabaloo that surrounds it about every two years.

all the girls checked it out at least once

Thank you! That was a point I forgot to make.

By: alphabitch

alphabitch — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:04:50 +0000

“he “rapes her until she loves him.”” … hey, I think we had that one in my high school library! Or one of those ones. Or something. It was SCANDALOUS … all the girls checked it out at least once. hahaha

Yeah, um, y’know … revisionist literary criticism irks me. This reminds me of people who freak out about Huckleberry Finn because it’s “racist”. If you’re not going to consider the context, don’t pretend you’re seriously considering the book as “literature”. Life isn’t always politically correct, and neither is all the literature that life inspires.

By: MoJo

MoJo — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:52:58 +0000

Methinks someone didn’t get the “lit crit” theme of the post, which is to say, if you purport to study romance novels as literature, consider the time in which they were written, as you would any other piece of literature.

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By: Victoria Janssen

Victoria Janssen — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:20:43 +0000

Interesting post!

I’m going to think about it for a while.