Yes, but surely they compose to quite a considerable extent in accordance
with (or indeed in defiance of) the methods they absorbed long ago when
learning how to analyse the work of others. There's no need to think about
form etc by then, unless they're deliberately using a complex one for a
particular purpose.
joanna
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Cudmore" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:07 PM
Subject: Re: theory comes after practice (was Constructivist Poetics (which
was Re: methadone))
> Here's Carl Dalhaus writing about the parallel case of music:
>
> "The esthetics of music is not popular. Musicians suspect it of being
> abstract talk far removed from musical reality; the musical public fears
> philosophical reflection of the kind one ought to leave to the initiated,
> rather than plaguing one's own mind with unnecessary philosophical
> difficulties." (The Idea of Absolute Music, 1978)
>
> I was talking to a composer about this the other week, whether composers
> analyse their own music--that is, approach their own work retrospectively
> using the same analytical methods they apply to the music of others. He
> didn't in his own case, and thought not of others--confirming my
> intuition.
>
> P
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Poetryetc provides a venue for a dialogue relating to
>> poetry and poetics [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
>> Behalf Of MC Ward
>> Sent: 02 March 2007 14:10
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Constructivist Poetics (was Re: methadone)
>>
>> How do you know, Andrew?
>>
>> For my part, I spent several years at Duke, where the grad
>> students called each other "theory monsters."
>> Both pro- and con- were tolerated, and I know of no instance
>> in which the writing came before the theory.
>> In fact, one of the drawbacks to matriculating in the
>> Literature Program was the pressure to theorize anything and
>> everything even before any work had been submitted.
>>
>> Candice
>>
>>
>>
>> --- andrew burke <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>> > For writers, theory comes after the practice.
>> >
>> > Andrew
>> >
>>
>>
>>
>>
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