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- Author: Jonathan Culler
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总的来讲这本书挺学术的，挺哲学的，所以看起来很累。
关于语言学的部分挺有意思的。大概是哲学的那一些观点的应用，先有观念再有词语还是现有词语才有观念？至少某些例证能证明人们被语言框住了，似乎说明是现有词语才有观念。只要能认识到这一点就是重大进步，能真正跳出这个框架就是超越了。
另外一个类似的重大观点是，故事 本质的功能是愉悦，让人觉得提高了认知也是一种愉悦（精神满足）。至于是不是真的提高了认知，这就不重要了，更多的时候是虚幻的。
关于文学，社会，语言 对人个体的作用和反作用，大概就是近现代这些结构主义后结构主义等等研究的中心。我没太看懂。但是我想起了 Le Guin 老太太的 A Wizard of Earthsea，觉得这本书还是挺高级的，用童话的形式讲了个很深的哲学思想。
Highlights
Historical Variations
Page 33 @ 18 February 2024 10:02:05 PMPerhaps literature is like weed.
- This is author’s answer to “What is literature?”
Chapter 2 What is Literature and Does it Matter
Page 50 @ 21 February 2024 09:01:29 PMultimately, (literature) function as a replacement for religion, which seemed no longer to be able to hold society together.
Butler’s Performatives
Page 143 @ 28 February 2024 10:34:07 AMThe gamble is that flaunting this name can change its meaning and make it a badge of honour rather than an insult
- badges like queer, homosexsual
The Subject
Page 162 @ 27 February 2024 08:08:32 PM‘subject of an experiment’.
- The word subject is not used this way in Chinese
Phenomenology
Page 181 @ 27 February 2024 09:00:28 PM(Phenomenology) focus not on the experience of an individual reader but on the history of a work’s reception and its relation to the changing aesthetic norms and sets of expectations that allow it to be read in different eras
- I like this idea Phenomenology
Structuralism
Page 182 @ 27 February 2024 09:12:04 PMStructuralism
- from here, literature becomes less important, it is only part of the evidence