Meaning, Hermeneutics, and A Season in Hell

Hello, all.

Here's something different: a link to a podcast about (and dramatic reading of) a piece of queer poetry by Arthur Rimbaud (Louise Varèse, tr.) titled A Season in Hell. The discussion is specifically about Delirium I, a small part of the much large poem, and questionable usefulness of history/enquiry into the life of the author in understanding the meaning of a text. Big topics discussed include the Death of the Author, and the Fusion of Horizons.

This podcast was produced to fulfill a requirement for a class I took during the winter semester of 2009 called Meaning. In it, we studied and discussed the construction and deconstruction and reconstruction meaning in light of structuralism, post-structuralism, deconstructionism (Derrida, mostly), and Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics, (among others). Enjoy!