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[truepenny]

Note to self: in copious spare time, learn to stop sounding so fucking dogmatic in off the cuff posts.

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[bdkellmer.livejournal.com]

I didn't find it dogmatic -- it was very interesting, in fact, especially as I don't know all that much about literary criticism.

[txanne.livejournal.com]

I liked it. But then I'm a lecturer because I can't stand most litcrit, and therefore it's kinda hard to force myself to look for TT jobs.

[jerusha.livejournal.com]

Um. You devoted how many years to learning how to sound didactic and certain in your writing?

It may be a worthwhile goal, but it may take a while to learn to defeat your training :)

[libskrat]

Damn. Beaten to the punch.

[cawilliams.livejournal.com]

Politicians have no problem having shall we say, strong, opinions I don't see why you should. Of course, they use polls to find out what their opions are! :)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

I didn't find it dogmatic. But I tend to default on assuming anything on a personal LJ is preceded by a giant IN MY OPINION flashing in neon red letters.

[kaigou.livejournal.com]

I didn't find it dogmatic, only partially didactic (heh) -- that is, intended to teach but not necessarily with a moral in mind. What would that be?

Coming at the world from the background of four years of getting dialectical logic hammered into my head, I've always felt a bit off-kilter when I run into literary criticism. My brain still, to this day, follows the thesis/antithesis/synthesis/thesis pattern, and I often find myself fascinated by (and confused by) other methods of deconstructing arguments or texts.

I'd say didact away, but that sounds like a brand of foot cream. "Planter's warts? Use Didact Away, and you, too, could be on the moon beach and marginalized happy in fourteen days!"

[cschells.livejournal.com]

*delurking, just for a second*
Yes, please. Because, you see, there I was, happily ignoring my dissertation chapter that I'm ignoring, innocently wandering around LJ, and your post made me feel guilty and bad. So much so that I almost started working on it again.

[angelhunter.livejournal.com]

*shrugs* Who cares about dogmatic or didactic - you were RIGHT. Honestly, this is your LJ, you can write in whatever style you want in here.

[scarypudding.livejournal.com]

No, no! More dogma!

[sweetjannette.livejournal.com]

May be you've found some dogmatic elements, but if they are present, they're supposed to be present.