tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post116613081564786659..comments2024-03-18T16:55:31.971+00:00Comments on This Space: Childish literary criticismStephen Mitchelmorehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-80121508097402789132011-03-31T00:13:06.069+01:002011-03-31T00:13:06.069+01:00Just read Josephine the Singer. What a thing! Curi...Just read Josephine the Singer. What a thing! Curiously generous/hopeful. And not just to the rest of the mice.Rory O'Connorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05407640087128905401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-19052726230925746372009-04-11T00:28:00.000+01:002009-04-11T00:28:00.000+01:00What about John Ruskin and his pathetic fallacy. I...What about John Ruskin and his pathetic fallacy. I think he started something, a little something, that wasn't felt for a while, and then at some point, early 20th century, "realism" became more of the thing. Maybe Le Guinn meant "realism" instead of "modernism?"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-60223691750166307782007-01-01T22:59:00.000+00:002007-01-01T22:59:00.000+00:00litlove said:
"it's always difficult to make swee...litlove said:<br /><br />"it's always difficult to make sweeping statements about genre"<br /><br />I agree, which started me thinking on the modernists. Which of the modernists consciously addressed <i>themselves</i> as modernist writers. Or is this something which happened with hindsight?<br /><br />JanJanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13465520048893073019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166520356318098362006-12-19T09:25:00.000+00:002006-12-19T09:25:00.000+00:00Thanks Dimitri - yes, I'd seen it already. I found...Thanks Dimitri - yes, I'd seen it already. I found this more sour than the others.<BR/><BR/>I've also seen Ruth Franklin's excellent New Yorker review.Stephen Mitchelmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166401526109162122006-12-18T00:25:00.000+00:002006-12-18T00:25:00.000+00:00http://www.signandsight.com/features/1090.htmlStev...http://www.signandsight.com/features/1090.html<BR/>Steve, just in case you hadn't picked up on it the url for Bernhard interview. dimitriAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166373875419575172006-12-17T16:44:00.000+00:002006-12-17T16:44:00.000+00:00Yes, the former writer was right saying that the p...Yes, the former writer was right saying that the present public boom to read and watch all those childish fantacie. it could be also indication that this soose generation is looking for some sort of escapism from the empty but alwys changingrealitty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166303099499447342006-12-16T21:04:00.000+00:002006-12-16T21:04:00.000+00:00I'm researching the fantastic in literature at the...I'm researching the fantastic in literature at the moment, and the mid to late 19th century was considered to be its moment of glory, in France at least. Todorov's definition of the fantastic is entirely based on work from that era - Gautier and Balzac were writing in the 1840s, and then Maupassant and Nodier joined in later on. But there's also narratives like Frankenstein (1818), The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and Melmoth the Wanderer (1820) to bear in mind. I suppose all I'm saying is that it's always difficult to make sweeping statements about genre. I have no idea to which modernist Le Guin refers, by the way.litlovehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10952927245186474480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166176161367178742006-12-15T09:49:00.000+00:002006-12-15T09:49:00.000+00:00Yeah, perhaps. But he's a modernist not "the moder...Yeah, perhaps. But he's a modernist not "the modernists" as a whole. Why didn't Le Guin specify?Stephen Mitchelmorehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01658772259307446873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8470094.post-1166158020914726272006-12-15T04:47:00.000+00:002006-12-15T04:47:00.000+00:00Not to ruin the point of the post but I can easily...Not to ruin the point of the post but I can easily imagine T.S. Eliot saying something like that, the priggish bastard.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com