tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post7980925744487590960..comments2023-07-14T04:28:49.111-06:00Comments on Now What: What are genres?Lance Olsenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13659209766706247259noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-47334662797257567412007-06-15T21:02:00.000-06:002007-06-15T21:02:00.000-06:00Hello,A young writer named Noah Cicero from Youngs...Hello,<BR/><BR/>A young writer named Noah Cicero from Youngstown has been employing line breaks in his fiction for years now.<BR/><BR/>His technique is referred to as the sentegraph. <BR/><BR/>Noah Cicero probably invented the sentegraph.<BR/><BR/>The technique is already being used by lots of people, including myself.*https://www.blogger.com/profile/17088684483522199539noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-14861587875738518482007-06-03T09:17:00.000-06:002007-06-03T09:17:00.000-06:00It's been bugging me for a couple weeks -- Eugene ...It's been bugging me for a couple weeks -- Eugene Onegin is not the name of a writer, of course, but the title of Pushkin's long-ago novel-in-verse.Ted Peltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13616332838143149496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-19336879641651848352007-05-11T10:06:00.000-06:002007-05-11T10:06:00.000-06:00Yeah, it only kills the dramatic pacing that way, ...Yeah, it only kills the dramatic pacing that way, is all. I imagine Paradise Lost goes a bit quicker in paragraph form as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-84698330970533603112007-05-09T06:04:00.000-06:002007-05-09T06:04:00.000-06:00Ted-Sorry, but I think the Woodchuck simply reads ...Ted-<BR/>Sorry, but I think the Woodchuck simply reads better with sentences. And I am very happy that you were willing to change it.<BR/>all best,<BR/>dbAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-64498358099927034062007-05-04T13:23:00.000-06:002007-05-04T13:23:00.000-06:00Ted-It all somehow swirls together...Ted-<BR/><BR/>It all somehow swirls together...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-50731451652018047222007-05-03T12:10:00.000-06:002007-05-03T12:10:00.000-06:00Jeffrey -- If an internal law of form falls in the...Jeffrey -- If an internal law of form falls in the forest and no one hears it, and this goes on for enough years that "form" itself is all but forgotten, is all that then exists "genre"? That's what I fear has happened. Come on (come on), Come on (come on), Come on (come on)...<BR/><BR/>Steven -- I wonder, seeing how desperately conservative academia is (as hierarchical and hide-bound as corporate America, or moreso), I wonder if conservatism is as much a function of the MFA world as it is commercial markets.Ted Peltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13616332838143149496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-74607385430721326772007-05-03T10:06:00.000-06:002007-05-03T10:06:00.000-06:00Dear Ted,The rules (laws) of genre are always exte...Dear Ted,<BR/>The rules (laws) of genre are always external, while the rules of form are internal. Think of the requirements of mysteries, for example, or westerns. It’s not surprising that these rules can be in conflict with one another, with the external demanding something that the internal refuses, and/or visa versa. I also don’t think it’s surprising that given the current state of economic affairs in the publishing and reading public, that the external laws of genre are now influenced (determined?) by extra-literary or non-aesthetic factors. Yeah yeah yeah. Jeffreyjdeshellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10284348944284380704noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27325099.post-49534573223987022712007-05-02T03:58:00.000-06:002007-05-02T03:58:00.000-06:00It's interesting how commercial restrictions in li...It's interesting how commercial restrictions in literary fiction will tend, almost by default or definition these days, to support societal norms. Whereas I'd always assumed that one of the freedoms licensed to literary art...and Art in general...was to stretch and even break those very norms.<BR/><BR/>No more iron fist (á la Stalin) when it comes to censorship, then. The bars of our conceptual prison are coated with crushed velvet and the guards are polite to a fault. <BR/><BR/>Welcome to the age of Totalitarian Decorum.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com