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Will Self has just published these remarks:
WB Yeats attributed to his father the remark that "Poetry is the social act of the solitary man"; with the creative-writing programmes and the Facebook links embedded in digitised texts encouraging readers to "share" their insights, writing and reading have become the solitary acts of social beings. And we all know how social beings tend to regard solitary acts – as perversities, if not outright perversions.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/02/will-self-novel-dead-literary-fiction
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On 6 May 2014, at 11:08 am, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hi Wystan!
>
> The list of explanations are not mine but provided by Arts and Letters Daily, where i chanced on the link to the poetry foundation…
>
> Ah, those days of ‘teaching’ ’creative writing’…
> glad mine are over.
>
> Max in Melbourne
>
> On 6 May 2014, at 10:43 am, Wystan Curnow (ARTS ENG) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> I thought Ruth Graham's article intellectually and ideologically naive. But I liked Max's list of explanations. During my brief career teaching creative writing, it appeared to me that received pedagogy constructed a model of 'creativity' in which just such motivations were a given.
>> Wystan
>>
>>
>>> Laziness, panic, narcissism, low self-esteem, ambition, deliberate
>>> self-sabotage: Why so many poets are plagiarizing…
>>>
>>> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/article/247130
>>>
>>> Ruth Graham: Word Theft:
>>> 2013 the year of the plagiarists
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>> --
>> :: from the desk of Halvard Johnson ::
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