Derrida and the Annotated Harry

[Ebony]

No: HPFGUIDX 7517

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "naama " 
<naama_gat at h...> wrote:
> 
> Which (again) reminds me of a quote:
> Why did the chicken cross the road?
> Derrida: Any number of contending discourses may be 
discovered within the act of the chicken crossing the road, and
> each interpretation is equally valid as the authorial
> intent can never be discerned, because structuralism
> is DEAD, DAMMIT, DEAD!
> (in http://www.jamesdawe.com/chickenjoke.html)
> 

I love it!  I love it, love it, LOVE IT!  This will be my sig quote for our 
grad school's online forum.

Speaking of the Annotated Alice, one of my favorite annotated 
editions is the Annotated Anne.  How about an Annotated 
HP/PS? I'd love to see a body of critical scholarship around HP--I 
don't think it's too farfetched.  Then you could have all sorts of 
readings of HP...  readings from all sorts of 
perspectives--feminist, cultural, postcolonial (according to our 
theory professor, that's a current trend in contemporary British lit 
anyway), structuralist (blech) and even psychoanalysis. 

Even if you don't agree with some of the perspectives, it is 
absolutely *fascinating* to read things from a different POV.   But 
then again, I'm a postmodernist--so all points of view to me are 
of interest.

--Ebony (whose favorite line from *The Matrix* was by far when 
the little kid/guru at the Oracle's home told Keanu/Neo "There is 
*no* spoon."  Totally postmodern--totally cool.)