Thanks for the Edwards review. I loved her article in Booth's collection, I think, though there's of course the obligatory "everyone before did it wrong" :) But I'm glad I saw this, bc I just cited her article and I can now instead cite the book.
I have tried for more than a decade to get students to take Barthes' model and examine their own mythologies--and it's a failure every time. I'm not sure whether my assignment is bad or whether asking them to step outside of their own experiences and examine the everyday as the strange is just too much for them at this point.
I used to teach the Wrestling essay until I realized that American wrestling kind of short circuited the argument. He tries to show how the sport is spectacle when that's all there is for most of my students (wrestling is not a common sport down here!). But I still adore Milk and Wine. I remember my mom visiting me after a two week exchange to Madison Wisconsin and opening a bottle of beer for dinner in relief, because she could not believe she'd been served milk every evening :)
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I have tried for more than a decade to get students to take Barthes' model and examine their own mythologies--and it's a failure every time. I'm not sure whether my assignment is bad or whether asking them to step outside of their own experiences and examine the everyday as the strange is just too much for them at this point.
I used to teach the Wrestling essay until I realized that American wrestling kind of short circuited the argument. He tries to show how the sport is spectacle when that's all there is for most of my students (wrestling is not a common sport down here!). But I still adore Milk and Wine. I remember my mom visiting me after a two week exchange to Madison Wisconsin and opening a bottle of beer for dinner in relief, because she could not believe she'd been served milk every evening :)