tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855832589372200011.post4786203218376870353..comments2024-03-25T00:14:28.212-07:00Comments on The Sour Grapevine: Time to Blow the WhistleJay Sour, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15820570825725679971noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855832589372200011.post-27967547803432714492015-01-22T07:08:34.448-08:002015-01-22T07:08:34.448-08:00Dear Dr. Loachdha, Thank you for your comment. As...Dear Dr. Loachdha, Thank you for your comment. As you know literary studies, as a discipline, has been running away from philology for its entire history, but ironically has ended up at the crossroads of language, text and culture, in other words, at the heart of philology. You will no doubt be interested in http://spectrum.library.concordia.ca/2715/<br />Jay Sour, PhDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15820570825725679971noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2855832589372200011.post-14894450157103705102015-01-21T07:48:46.930-08:002015-01-21T07:48:46.930-08:00Dear Dr. Sour, Imagine my surprise and delight whe...Dear Dr. Sour, Imagine my surprise and delight when I just read that you prefer to define yourself as a philologist. More power to said nomenclature and profession. Being so late in reading your searing accounts of Lisée (the worst kind of "progressive" careerist politician/hypocrite), the Bloc's debacle concerning Ms. Mourani (which, it would appear, perhaps, they continue to pay for in the polls (?)), the good news has been that after most of the sturm und drang, for which I prefer the translation "Storm and Stress," around the Charter debate, the PQ paid quite heavily for following the likes of M. Drainville's visionary lack of vision. One of the dark sides of the resultant zero-sum game has been the reinforcement and advancement of Couillard's Neo-Liberal agenda which, in turn, seems to have been attracting die hard péquistes and their sympathizers to seeing PKP as the national project's saviour. So said charter's ethnic-nationalist drive has been undercut, for now (let's see what medium term effects the Charlie massacre, etc, has upon people's "tolerance" for signs of religious difference), but replaced by greater N-L madness. If I wasn't as seasoned as I am by following and participating - in my limited, usually equally armchair ways - in politics, I'd weep. As for the "ubiquitous spawn": you're entitled to your opinion, but said tribe - that is, in fact, not one spawn or tribe - are often no more insensible than the equally best intentioned of other authors and thinkers and their learned and unconscious ignorance, biases and contradictions (i.e. Marx, Adam Smith, Dickens, De Beauvoir, Allan Bloom, Castro, Friedman, Mordecai Richler....). Hence the need for philologists, of which I am a mere babe in the woods. NamasteDavid Leahyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10160803797248689857noreply@blogger.com