in reading both barthes and foucault's essays, i couldn't help but they both call upon the storyteller figure of ages ago to make the point that the author/text relationship has not always been what it is now. their reference to these storytellers and the types of tales they told really struck something with me... we hear those stories all the time. they've since been collected, typed up, published.. but we all know them. these are the real timeless texts. the pieces of literature that are so simple, usually conveying a message for society, that were really told instead of read. there was no mind paid toward from who's mind the stories sprung... kind of an agreement between author and listener -- both parties knew what their place in the circulation of the story was. the author was to create and provide, then he or she was to back down and away when they gave their piece to the world. the listener's role was to take what they naturally felt from hearing it and then continue to tell it.. keep it alive.

i will elaborate more and provide a link. my internet at home is fussy, so i wasn't able to do much but read blog posts yesterday...

oh! i want to thank you guys for participating so well in class on tuesday... you guys really made presenting on new historicism a whole lot easier for me. you know what it's like when you think you get it, but you've got that sick feeling that you don't.

i appreciate it.