academic refresher course...

From: Diane Hodges (dhodges@ceo.cudenver.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 30 2002 - 17:37:59 PDT


Hello dears -

well colour ME embarrassed, but i've been looking for essays or articles
that analyse the biblical story of the Tower of Babel,
and am in a SEA of i don't know what.

I'm looking for ways that the story itself has been elaborated
to discuss language, metaphor, difference, communication,
but cannot seem to narrow that down to a particular "faculty" of
thought.

i thought i'd toss this out, in case anyone has come across
such works in their browsings...

it's not an emergency or anything, and i'll find something eventually,
i'm just - mostly - frustrated by how hard it is to research
outside the academic library...

thanks
diane

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"As he half dozed the thought struck him of what it might be like to
record the reality of things,
 matched with the thoughts and impressions it brought forth.
 To find the edge on which the interior met the exterior space...
 If he could keep some sense of how things really were,
 he might retain a little of it over time.
The past was always disguising itself, disappearing into the needs
 of the moment. Whatever happened got replaced by the
 official story or competing fictions."
Robert Stone
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diane celia hodges
university of british columbia, centre for the study of curriculum and
instruction
vancouver, bc
mailing address: 46 broadview avenue, pointe claire, qc, H9R 3Z2



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