On Dec 9, 2004, at 6:12 PM, Julia Kristeva wrote:

hey paul,
i really appreciate it that you are going to post up some notes about guillory,
bloom and barthes. i am a bit confused about them and their exact thoughts.

i have a feeling that i missed class when we talked about spivak. i read it and have a few questions...

Thanks. I'm hoping to get to posting some stuff in the next couple of hours.

You're absolutely right about Spivak in that we never read it, it turns out. That remained on the list from my 086 class over the summer. I deleted it from the blog article list a couple of days ago, but forgot to mention it to everyone. :( Sorry about that!

We talked about the Barthes at a number of points in the course, but without ever getting around to reading the article until now. I've included some important quotes from the article in the blog entry about intertextuality, but will talk a bit more about Barthes shortly on the blog.

I'm also going to add part of our conversation to the blog, as I'm sure many of you have the same questions.