October 6, 2008
Antecedents
Seriously, what's the deal with modern literature/music and pronouns with no antecedents?by K. Janke at 6:56 PM |
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6 Comments:
I'm not even sure what that means.
That sort of thing is common in middle English.
I'd call this the bogus trend of the week, but apparently that's already been taken by dudes with cats.
http://www.slate.com/id/2201764/
I thought Kyle was talking about when pronouns / relatives occur before their "antecedents" or when they function as their own antecedents. My point is that this happens in other languages, including middle English. Although I am not sure what texts Kyle is talking about, I would not be surprised if English started doing this again.
Actually, I was listening to Cat Power and became frustrated in dramatic phoney-depthism (I'm making this a word) in general.
I won't try to defend any real point, other than it just makes me mad when people get away with sounding deep by being vague. And I still don't like James Joyce... you can't make me.
I just really wanted an example of what you were talking about before I argued about it.
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