Chris, I think Kristeva is a good model for art,
especially her abject image of the skin of milk. She's
an artist/poet in her own right, something her
critical-theory colleagues often fail to notice, let
alone appreciate.
Lucky you, to have solved the problem of the left
margin, and the connections you make with pronouns are
inspired.
Cheers,
Candice
My dear, we're slow dancing
In a burning room
(John Mayer)
--- Chris Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 05:05 -0800, MC Ward wrote:
> > I think I know what freedom you're after, Chris.
> I'm
> > wrestling with the tyrany of the left margin.
>
> I think that what Frederick and also what Jon
> Corelis are doing is
> technically very difficult and demanding and I do
> read them in some hope
> of getting a few tips. The problem, for me at least,
> was that I became
> almost totally preoccupied with overcoming the
> technical difficulties
> that this produced a blindness to other problems
> which then effectively
> blocks what can be written. So the easiest solution
> was to get rid of
> the left margin.
>
> One of the big problems with moving from a first
> person lyric/narrative
> to third person narrative is the I that in the third
> person does not say
> I but is implied, especially when this involves
> dabbling in abject
> subject matter. What becomes apparent in this move
> is the third person
> implied I can become a sublime route to the
> super-ego and this is a huge
> block to writing narrative fiction. Lacan's mirror
> phase and Kristeva's
> (sp?) book on abjection and horror deal with this
> problem, at least from
> the angle of my critical readings. But anyways,
> having got rid of the
> left margin I am more able to see and deal with this
> problem, especially
> if abjection even with a first person pronoun
> provokes a super-ego
> response. The problem at least is now apparent, it
> becomes the problem
> of a provoked super-ego which is a narrative problem
> of fore-shadowing,
> back-shadowing and even side-shadows. (The other
> reply on Nietzsche also
> addresses this in more poetic theoretical terms, of
> course.)
>
> Anna Gibbs writing on mimesis and ficto-criticism
> also has something to
> say on this. (Google search needed to find article.)
>
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