tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post4759950899518725442..comments2023-11-05T07:27:43.837-05:00Comments on Narrative and Technology: Ergodic LiteratureAdamhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8692381608294018617.post-25798948716233880482014-04-11T20:54:39.171-04:002014-04-11T20:54:39.171-04:00I like the body vs. book distinction - hopefully y...I like the body vs. book distinction - hopefully you'll elaborate more on what it means. A number of people have found the concept of "ergodic" literature helpful in working with HOL, but I always ask the same question, and it's my central question for you, too.<br /><br />What is the value of the concept? What can we do with it? At the beginning of your essay, you focus perhaps on more obvious or less interesting ways in which the novel is ergodic. Later on, you do get more interesting - I would have liked to see more about chapter XII and less about earlier sections.<br /><br />Your point, I believe, is that we struggle even as the characters struggle. That's a good observation, but it's not quite yet an argument. *Why* do we struggle as the characters struggle? (Especially since, in fact, some parts of the book are really hard for less than obvious reasons, while some sections read rather easily, in spite of being concerned with traumatic events in their lives). What is the meaning or the purpose of how the book makes us work?<br /><br />Before I forget, I used your short blog entry a lot in class.Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16302919444091859459noreply@blogger.com