Edmund,
I hope you are right but I fear that you are not.
I have read some of what she has to say about transexual women. She argues
brilliantly and there were convincing shreds of truth in there (as there are
in all good arguments). I was still left with the feeling that what I was
reading amounted to a verbal assault on a group of people that were
probabaly in need of a little bit of support and empathy.
As Ken says there is no way for anyone else to win in an argument that is
shaped in this way. I obviously just 'don't get it'.
Re the 'masterclass' - there is no doubt that men have shaped most of the
literary landscape (at least up until a couple of hundred years ago). I
don't believe that this is the point.
Tina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edmund Hardy" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:46 PM
Subject: Re: Poetry as Male Display
> hang on, hang on - obviously the blurb for the masterclass just goes over
> the top, and perhaps those are the questions which frame a more
> interesting discussion once Greer gets there & starts talking -
>
> but isn't there something serious here - Rachel Blau Duplessis on Susan
> Howe:
>
> "her poems are repositories of the language shards left in a battlefield
> over cultural power."
> http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/howe/howe_duplessis.html
>
> Edmund
>
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