Doug,
I have been meaning to thank for for your comments, personally, but have
been caught with with flower pots and other writings. I had also wanted
to ask you about the Canadian link with ficto-criticism that Anna Gibbs
mentioned in her 1997 article. To say it is an Aust invention, I take
with several grains of salt, since it came from other academic sources
which may have unhealthy aspirations attached??? Further, I have also
seen it explained as some kind of neo-Platonic pedagogy, so until I read
Anna's article a few months back, an intervention designed to counter
this myth that appeared to be growing around ficto-criticism here, that
I became at all comfortable with the term. About 12 years ago I wrote
some stuff which was linked to ficto-criticism in some critical feedback
which Anna kindly provided, especially an article in which I set up the
ghosts of Schelling and Hegel in a critical third person narrative. I
also thought that attaching the label of ficto-criticism to the flower
pot may be a sneaky way to negotiate through the refereed journal system
we have here, since I have recently been forced to get some refereed
publications. (It looks like my two international conference papers and
publication in a Random House NY anthology are no longer worth enough,
if any points, with the latest changes to the system... groan.) Anyway,
I have always been wondering who the mysterious Canadians Anna mentioned
as introducing ficto-criticism to Aust are, so thanks for that name. Do
you have any more, by any chance? I am also curious about the French
input Anna mentions. I suspect Helene Cixous, Irrigaray and Duras, for
starters.
Thanks also for letting me know about the DU doco. Since one source was
Reuters, if I remember rightly, I was beginning to wonder why this story
wasn't picked up as it sounded news worthy and interesting to me.
There is a paragraph at the end of my post to Mark's question (gender
and lists thread) on reverse narrative and lyric which may be of
interest to you since it follows from a previous discussion we had on
lyric and narrative which posed some interesting questions, at least for
me, so a thousand million thanks again.
Chris Jones.
PS... this is the article I liked....
Anna Gibbs, Bodies of Words: Feminism and Fictocriticism - explanation
and demonstration TEXT Vol 1 No 2
http://www.gu.edu.au/school/art/text/oct97/gibbs.htm
On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 02:33, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Chris
>
> for what it's worth, there was a lengthy documentary on CBC National TV
> news the other night on just this subject, & how the DU will affect both
> the US/UK soldiers and the Iraqi civilians. It did, of course, include in
> the name of allowing both sides their pplace, the various denials over they
> years that DU had in any way harmed the soldiers of the first Gulf War. But
> mainly, it presented a coherent & horrifying picture of the likely long
> term effects of DU use in Iraq (& on the soldiers returning 'home).
>
> On another topic entirely, 'ficto-criticism' may be an Australian
> invention, but i know many in Canada who would argue for its invention here
> (& I'm sure others in other countries could make the saem argument).
> Certainly, Aretha Van Herk is one of many Canadian practitioners, & she was
> in Australia a number of times: did she bring it there or get it there?
> Hmnnn.... <g>
>
> Doug
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