6.0563 Rs: Writing a la ...; History of Lit (2/40)

Elaine Brennan (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Mon, 1 Mar 1993 14:41:58 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 6, No. 0563. Monday, 1 Mar 1993.


(1) Date: 26 Feb 1993 9:41:11 EST (22 lines)
From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU
Subject: Re: 6.0557 Humanities Active Learning (3/44)

(2) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 10:31:53 +0800 (18 lines)
From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Subject: Re: History of Lit Query

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Date: 26 Feb 1993 9:41:11 EST
From: wilm@legacy.Calvin.EDU
Subject: Re: 6.0557 Humanities Active Learning (3/44)



Re: Bob Judd's question on writing music in the style
of Mozart, poetry in the style of Shakespeare, etc.:
This was (and is still) done all the time in Latin
composition classes, in which students are exhorted
to try to write in the style (e.g.) of Cicero, or Tacitus,
or whomever. Such assignments are usually considered
the bane of a Latin student's existence, but for those
who can pull the trick off, it's very beneficial.

MW
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Date: Fri, 26 Feb 1993 10:31:53 +0800
From: tunwin@uniwa.uwa.edu.au
Subject: Re: History of Lit Query


Writers talking about the 'unconscious process': surely one of the most
famous examples is Rimbaud's 'Lettre du Voyant' of 1871 -- not, I think,
that he claims poetry is purely the result of an unconscious process, but
rather that it seizes and deliberately exploits that unconscious process to
a creative end. In a very different context, I also remember a fascinating
television interview given by John Fowles (couldn't begin to give a precise
reference, but probably about 15 years ago on the BBC) where he talked
about the writer's alter ego, and claimed that the reason good writers made
bad critics was because they could not quite grasp the creative processes
going on within them.

Tim Unwin, University of Wester Australia.