Interesting Essay from 'Open Letters Monthly, an Art and Literature Review'
Joseph Wood 'Taxonomy and Grace'
http://www.openlettersmonthly.com/taxonomy-and-grace/
'.....I’d be pigeonholed into writing about nothing except my own inability to feel like I have any right to my own language and experience. I would simply revert to cleverness. And I would be miserable.'
Highhat | April 8, 2011 - 17:14
What a great quote Lenchenelf
lenchenelf | April 8, 2011 - 20:22
Hi Pia, spotted it today flagged up on Arts & Letters Daily.com. Yes, the essay is an individual perspective on writing and critique, valid as anyone else's :-)
I agree, on occasion what we give to or get from a piece is intensely personal to our own experience.
eg: as a reader, I came to Jane Eyre as a six year old and focussed on the sense of injustice to the child, as a ten year old, focussed on the flight over the moors, as a teenager, the romantic aspect, as first year lit, victorian stereotypy/archetypes etc etc. Each time we read a piece, I feel it is possible to derive pleasure from some or all of its varied aspects, turning new or unexpected corners.
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