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Post by guzhenglover on Sept 6, 2007 3:48:09 GMT
What does BS mean?
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Post by charliecharlieecho on Sept 6, 2007 6:06:57 GMT
GZL: think of two words beginning respectively with a B and an S and which together mean "pretentious", "attempting to pull wool over eyes", and things in that general region. The same phrase occurs several times in 'Blazing Saddles', and no doubt many other films.
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Post by guzhenglover on Sept 6, 2007 7:18:25 GMT
GZL: think of two words beginning respectively with a B and an S and which together mean "pretentious", "attempting to pull wool over eyes", and things in that general region. The same phrase occurs several times in 'Blazing Saddles', and no doubt many other films. Thanks for that explanation, I think I get the idea...what an eye-opener for me... |
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Post by charliecharlieecho on Sept 6, 2007 11:16:37 GMT
More seriously, WWG's dissertation is full of very good stuff, but some of it appears to suggest that (some of) Wesleyan's supervisors may allow (some of) their supervisees to wander slightly off topic occasionally.
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Post by Charlie Huang on Sept 8, 2007 9:42:42 GMT
The only dissertation I have in hand is a very recent one by Miao Jianhua (2006?) on the aesthetics of the qin. It is a bit predictable how she approaches it; history with criticism of the traditional view of the qin dotted here and there. Her main gist is to 'take the qin away from the shi and give it back to the people.' She talks about how the qin was very liberal in the beginning and turned excessively conservative and how the shi (literati) monopolised it; how the qin became internal from external, et cetera. Her solution is to convert/change the aesthetical approach to the qin, from propriety/scholarly to a more humanities/artistic perspective.
I might try and gain access to the Oxford Bodleian as I know they have a few qinpu and books on qin there. I'll probably need a recommendation as I'll be handling manuscripts.
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