Thanks, Doug, for posting this url. I've read three of the
papers and find them most interesting. They do have a different
focus, in that rather than defining the particularities of
poets, they focus on the affect of reading within any
self, which is much more compatible with my own thinking
on this. I am still interested in all this. I went to a
faculty meeting the other night, and I should say it's
a community college in a small Western town, but one
of the classes being taught is about madness and writers
and the Jamison book, referred to in some of the earlier
discussions on this, is being used as a textbook. Which
suggests to me, anyway, that may of the "mights" that
were suggested by those Pennybacker and other studies
are being used as if they were in fact definitive and
to teach a view of the madness of writers and poets! So
I'm glad to have this other approach.
Best,
Rebecca
Rebecca Seiferle
www.thedrunkenboat.com
From: Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: 08/23/03 09:08 AM
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Subject: Re: that psychology stuff (for whoever's still interested)
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> A psychologist here, Don Kuiken, is working with an English prof, DavidMiall (Romantics etc) on reader response, so I don't know if it would be
useful or not. Papers can be accessed, however, at:
Don Kuiken, PhD
Department of Psychology
http://web.psych.ualberta.ca/~dkuiken/personal/kuikend.html
They might be of interest, or they might be off in another area all
together...
Doug
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta Canada T6G 2E5
(h) [780] 436 3320 (b) [780] 492 0521
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
I do not limit myself: I imitate
many fancy things such as the dull red
cloth of literature, its mumbled griefs
Lisa Robertson
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