>It's dogmatism of any kind that's the killer.< Alison, I couldn't agree
more. Andrew
2009/4/7 Alison Croggon <[log in to unmask]>
> The odd thing, Frederick, is that all the things I've read by you in
> this thread are extraordinarily prescriptive! A whole collection of
> implicit "shoulds"! I do think most interesting works of any kind
> teach you how to read them; whether that means they are also claiming
> to be the only way to make meaning seems absolutely moot to me. In any
> case, I prefer having the widest possible menu of options open to me,
> as a writer and reader. The fact remains that thinking about poetry -
> theory, philosophy, critical writings of all kinds - has always fed in
> and out of its practice, way back to Aristotle. And can be evidence of
> life as much as death. It's dogmatism of any kind that's the killer.
>
> xA
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