Science was my 'literature' for a long time. I read novels and have long had strong senses of trope and the abuses of rhetoric and so on. My long-term problem with much literature is its 'twee-ness' and linkage with that intelligensia that exploits smaltz. I still see a lot in Molly's question and find it disturbing that much that interests me is not written in English. I found it very disturbing that my undergrad classes had so much trouble seeing the real jokes in The Simpsons and South Park, let alone Kierkegaard. Once, comparing the Tractatus with Hamlet, I found a whole class had no clue about 'the rest is silence'. I spent that evening with Ziggy Bauman and we took in a Dirty Harry movie and nearly died laughing at Mario et Jeanette, lamenting it was so difficult to talk on anything culturally shared, even fairy tales and toilet humour. Pluralism, it seemed to us, had died, managed to obscurity. Novels, amongst the unreading, seemed no answer.
On 4 Mar, 02:32, [email protected] wrote: > The most compelling novels give us a novel perspective in a way that enables > us to experience the novel point of view. > > Particularly in college I was enthralled in identifying with such characters > as Stephen Dedalus in Joyce's Ulysses, Harry Haller, in Hesse's Steppenwolf, > "Life's delicate child" in Mann's The Magic Mountain, etc. In so doing I was > able to push my experiential boundaries and test out alternative view life > perspectives. What a grand experience. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Molly <[email protected]> > To: "Minds Eye" <[email protected]> > Sent: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 9:02 pm > Subject: [Mind's Eye] what will happen if literature fades away? > > "If the novel goes the way of live theater – a medium appealing to > nly a small, relatively rarefied segment of the population – what, if > nything, will be lost? What can a novel do for us that other art > orms > can’t?”http://siobhancurious.wordpress.com/2010/03/02/encountering-the-other... > What do you think? > -- > ou received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Minds Eye"" group. > o post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > o unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > or more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
