I should have copyrighted the thread on performance, because no sooner than
it is on this list, it is taken up by the coterie and I am ignored or
misunderstood. What is this nonsense about "performance" poetry? I simply
meant the difference between the text seen and silently read and the poem
read aloud --and there is a great difference between the two. One doesn't
necessarily have to have an audience to read it out aloud, and when one does
read it out aloud --that is a performance--carrying out into effect the
work, or rendering the poem --etc. For me the reading out aloud is an
equivalent of Austin's speech acts. Of course there are people who can't
read out aloud for physical reasons, but no doubt upon publication the work
will eventually be read out aloud.
What I have seen on the list is a good example of gerrymandering. Whether it
is by intention or design, I do not know, but you have a singular incapacity
to understand something as simple as performance meaning the poem brought or
rendered into effect. But I should realise this fact.
With regard to ED. I asked why hasn't the same fetish for text been seen in
the cases of all those other women writers of the 17th -19thC?
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