Sunday, October 31, 2010

About research diaries ...

Happy Halloween :)

Just a quick thought on research diaries to end the week. After the class discussion this week, I have become uneasy with the thought of keeping a research diary. The example of the man who died, and whose diary was read and research subsequently reanalyzed really made me think. To me, this situation ruins the research. It is the author that becomes a research topic, rather than the actual work s/he did.

1 comment:

  1. Here's a link to the NYT piece on Kafka's last papers that I referred to in class:
    http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/26/magazine/26kafka-t.html

    Stupid Blogger markup-free comments (grrrr...)! You'll have to copy/paste the URL if you want to read it.

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