Chris
off the top of my head, seconds before the conveyer of coffee tells us all
to go home, I want to thanks you for "deliberately courting autobiography"
that just stood out irrespective of what was around it as a splendid idea
and now out into the rain
I am so PLEASED it is raining
see how Lord Coe and the Mayor of London like that
until the morrow
L
On Fri, July 27, 2012 03:24, chris Jones wrote:
> On 27/07/12 10:50, chris Jones wrote:
>
>> The other thing I find is writing very privileged adolescent men as
>> characters
>
> I trust readers understand the position the eldest son of a grazier has
> in Aust society, so I also find myself encountering this personal position,
> according to my birth certificate and despite severe illness, having the
> financial means to live on my own yacht, against an autobiographical
> accusation of class privilege.
>
> Now, this is where it gets tricky, I lived the life of that Emerson boy;
> deliberately courting autobiography. This is another way that Aust
> ficto-criticism goes about doing what it does.
>
> It becomes hard to not invoke a Kantian immanent critique and I was
> wondering what this could have in connection with Emerson, who I read is
> more important as a theorist of US Romanticism and the American Romantic
> landscape. The f64 landscape photography, also, as a manifestation of this
> Romanticism. Now national differences seem to be introduced. There
> seems also something which is nihilistic and specific to recent English
> arts, eg, Last of England, Punk, and more interesting again a rebellion
> against a postmodern dead-end which is not hostile to technology.
>
> Another example, cross national, Penny Rimaud and Louise Elliott in
> Montreal...
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMT1rrl8FyU
>
>
> or the Grand Union Orchestra, in London?
>
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Lawrence Upton
Visiting Fellow, Music Dept,
Goldsmiths, University of London
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
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