- ...Most contemporary readers do not have very discriminating taste when it comes to modern or older fiction. So all literature teachers have a good work to do: educate students so that they will be able to recognize both rot and excellence in writing.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-132055231.html >> From: Derek Allan >> Reply-To: >> Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:32:34 +1000 >> To: , >> Subject: RE: The Fate of The Image >> >> But art is not simply that which 'rises above the conventional >> and mundane'. >> >> Agatha Christie and Harry Potter do that. >> >> DA >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: saul ostrow [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Sunday, 30 March 2008 10:57 AM >> To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: Re: The Fate of The Image >> >> As you have pointed out many writers and demonstrated yourself, many >> writers have the technical skills to write a sentence - what they don't have >> is the skill to write a novel or a play that rises above the conventional >> and mundane >> Saul Ostrow >> Visual Arts and Technologies >> The Cleveland Institute of Art >> >> >> >> >>> From: >>> Reply-To: >>> Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2008 20:43:08 EDT >>> To: >>> Subject: Re: The Fate of The Image >>> >>> In a message dated 3/29/08 8:18:45 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> >>> >>>> "Skill is knowing how to do >>>> what you want to do." Who claims otherwise? >>>> >>>> I might, depending on what you have in mind. >>> >>> I myself think I see a tenable distinction between knowing how to do >>> something and being able to do it. To say that someone has the skill to do >>> something >>> but can't do it feels silly, no? But that is implied by the assertion that >> the >>> knowledge of how to is the skill. I myself would say that after multiple >>> sclerosis made Jacqueline Du Pre incapable of playing the cello, she knew >> how >>> to >>> play but no longer physically had the skill required to do it. >>> >>> _________________________________________________________________ How well do you know your celebrity gossip? http://originals.msn.com/thebigdebate?ocid=T002MSN03N0707A
