Minor Literature
This is a little bit in response to those feacebook lists about what books you like. I like facebook and all, i really truly do (not just saying that to keep the stazi from coming to get me), but there are only so many times i want to broadcast in hope of likes even from my friends, - anywho
I was looking for the old solid red cover of this book, for an image of it, but none are preserved. The good news for all of you is that you can just get a pdf of this whole book apparently online, so that's sweet. I mean for FREE.
But what was I going to say about it. It really came to mind cause I was thinking of the various kinds of writing that Rachel teaches, comp for beginners, poetry, and then I have a few other friends teaching various college classes which require your standard essay and what-not, beside which we are all writing for our blogs our facebooks and ourselves. One thing all of the more academic settings seem to stress is to know your audience, i guess now that i think about it, its funny that those settings seem to cause a certain ammount of amnesia in which grammar lessons might seem like a scapel to simply remove more memory/knowledge.
but i was talking about the book toward a minor literature which makes my top ten list of books that even tho i don't remember much of continues to influence me cause for one it is a way of grounding where you are writing from in a very specific writing way, which is good if writing is what you are doing. from there i do think it cross applies. minor literatures in rock and roll are numerous. I guess now is a good as time as any to clarify what I mean. or what i think deleuze meanth, which is, you have your major literature, which you read as the canon, and the which you read as phrase might too be important, even shakespeare might be read as a minor lit.
i'm beginning to get the sense i'm in over my head and either need to reread the book or have one of my more up on it friends step in.
but until i do let me finish the point with aspiring poetry and comp writers. i think it makes it clearer. what makes so much of that work so painful is it is trying to be written as major lit, and its not that they will work themselves up to the major leagues tho that may be possible too, it's just that where they, maybe most of us, are positioned is not as part of the major cultrue, but part of the minor, or even sub-culture (again, someone, explain the dif to me). people are trying to write their movie reviews as movie reviewers and they lose any particularity in their language.
i'll stop for now until i figure out what im talking about but book, youre still on my top ten.
I was looking for the old solid red cover of this book, for an image of it, but none are preserved. The good news for all of you is that you can just get a pdf of this whole book apparently online, so that's sweet. I mean for FREE.
But what was I going to say about it. It really came to mind cause I was thinking of the various kinds of writing that Rachel teaches, comp for beginners, poetry, and then I have a few other friends teaching various college classes which require your standard essay and what-not, beside which we are all writing for our blogs our facebooks and ourselves. One thing all of the more academic settings seem to stress is to know your audience, i guess now that i think about it, its funny that those settings seem to cause a certain ammount of amnesia in which grammar lessons might seem like a scapel to simply remove more memory/knowledge.
but i was talking about the book toward a minor literature which makes my top ten list of books that even tho i don't remember much of continues to influence me cause for one it is a way of grounding where you are writing from in a very specific writing way, which is good if writing is what you are doing. from there i do think it cross applies. minor literatures in rock and roll are numerous. I guess now is a good as time as any to clarify what I mean. or what i think deleuze meanth, which is, you have your major literature, which you read as the canon, and the which you read as phrase might too be important, even shakespeare might be read as a minor lit.
i'm beginning to get the sense i'm in over my head and either need to reread the book or have one of my more up on it friends step in.
but until i do let me finish the point with aspiring poetry and comp writers. i think it makes it clearer. what makes so much of that work so painful is it is trying to be written as major lit, and its not that they will work themselves up to the major leagues tho that may be possible too, it's just that where they, maybe most of us, are positioned is not as part of the major cultrue, but part of the minor, or even sub-culture (again, someone, explain the dif to me). people are trying to write their movie reviews as movie reviewers and they lose any particularity in their language.
i'll stop for now until i figure out what im talking about but book, youre still on my top ten.
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