Fascinating Fascism

[Mark Kohut]

Kenneth Burke was one of her influential teachers..see his books on form...

I have always read 'descriptive' as phenomenological...that is, as descriptive 
of the phenomenon of the art object...
which, for literary art, still usually means some kind of interpretation of the 
words, images, etc....

But, that is my 'arrogance of interpretation' perhaps....


----- Original Message ----
From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
To: P-list <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Fri, November 12, 2010 10:41:12 AM
Subject: Re: Fascinating Fascism

hey, thanks!  Those aren't so very lengthy after all. And pretty tasty.

"What is needed, first, is more attention to form in art. If excessive
stress on content provokes the arrogance of interpretation, more
extended and more thorough descriptions of form would silence. What is
needed is a vocabulary - a descriptive, rather than prescriptive,
vocabulary - for forms."



Otto  wrote:
> Against Interpretation
> by Susan Sontag
>
> http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/sontag-againstinterpretation.html
>
>
> Notes On "Camp"
> by Susan Sontag
>
> http://interglacial.com/~sburke/pub/prose/Susan_Sontag_-_Notes_on_Camp.html
>



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