The Feminization of American Culture: Ann Douglas: 9780374525583: Amazon.com: Books

[Keith Davis]

(In  response to Alice)
On Oct 2, 2012 8:31 AM, "Keith Davis" <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Fair enough.
> On Oct 2, 2012 5:33 AM, "alice wellintown" <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> > So you're saying that because some authors aren't good at condensing
>> their
>> > ideas into shorter forms, they're not as good as those who are able to
>> do
>> > so? Not sure I agree with that, though it's an interesting idea. Is a
>> two
>> > hour Coltrane solo less telling than a two minute Miles solo? How to
>> judge?
>> > Is a sketch by Leonardo more important than the Sistine Chapel? Apples
>> and
>> > oranges.
>>
>> Not what I meant at all; it was suggested, not by me, that we might
>> avoid the apples and oranges, or better, sardines (Melville's
>> Bartleby) and a four course seafood feast (melville's Moby-Dick), and
>> also find some common ground, some agrred to criteria by which we
>> might measure excellence, in style, in character making and so on, if
>> we took a look at these shorter forms of fiction. As there are so many
>> of you guys who have studied English Literature, or Literature, I
>> thought it reasonable to ask that we judge based on something other
>> than reader-response to the text; that is, consider the works in their
>> contexts, in the tradition, in their elements. To give this kind of
>> discussion a focus we might include a work mentioned here, like Mr
>> James Wood's How Fiction Works, or Booth's The Rhetoric of Fiction. Or
>> Frye or Bloom, or that book about how to read like a professor.
>>
>
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