The agenda (your bete noire) is to be free of hunger. Getting food is the method.

But you've changed the subject, your unexplained "Don't you think a theory is a de facto agenda?" What do you mean by agenda? If every act or [fill in the blank] has one, why did you ask the question?

Best,
Marcia

Please, "What's your problem there?" is just the sort of nastiness that can plague this list. I don't appreciate your condescension; I don't merit it. Not in the least.

Diana Manister wrote:

[log in to unmask]" type="cite"> Dear Marcia,

Do you not see that a plan for hunger removal is a plan to get food?

What's your problem there?

Diana

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:58:56 -0500
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Subject: Re: Residual agency
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No, actually it was hunger removal.

Diana Manister wrote:
[log in to unmask]"> Dear Marcia,

Your agenda this morning was not hunger. It was a plan to get food.

Diana

Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:52:20 -0500
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Subject: Re: Residual agency
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By this logic

Don't you think a theory is a de facto agenda?
Don't you think the agenda of a theory then is to be "a predictive expression of an observed pattern?"

(in response to Rick below)

agenda means nothing. My agenda for this morning's breakfast was hunger, though yesterday it was taste.

What did you have in mind by your first question (above)?

Best,
Marcia

Diana Manister wrote:
[log in to unmask]"> Dear Rick:

Don't you think the agenda of a theory then is to be "a predictive expression of an observed pattern?"

Does every agenda have to be political?

Diana

Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:23:41 -0700
From: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Residual agency
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Dear list

Diane wrote: Don't you think a theory is a de facto agenda?

Traditionally a theory is simply a predictive expression of an observed pattern. I think theories can become agendas when their observed pattern has been conditioned by faith and/or ideology.

To the extent that literary theories are conditioned by faith and/or ideology they then are agendas.

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