Thanks to all who recommended books. I have sent away for all
of them, pretty much. How I love Amazon.
By the way Mark, I didn't mean to suggest that
Boileau-Narcejac were postmodern, I was just expressing shock
and awe that they aren't translated.
And miker, the notion of language constructing reality is
fundamental to postmodernist thought. If you're interested,
start reading The History of Sexuality, vol. 1, by Foucault,
or more or less anything by Foucault
-- Madness and Civilization for instance. (I haven't read
that one, but I know a man who has.)
Actually, we only have to listen to the Bush administration's
words of wisdom to see how language constructs reality. We
have just 'freed' Iraq. If you don't agree, you're
'unpatriotic'. Our sanctions against them were founded in our
interest in 'human rights'. Actually, this isn't language
constructing reality in a Foucauldian sense, but rather in a
Marxist sense: those with the power get to say what things
mean.
Johnny
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