It's not my ideal first post to a list, to quibble with the moderator (and
a genial one), but I'm not sure that information which does not fall under
'where do you send the vanguard phalanx' is therefore swept into the
dustbin of theory, and therefore I'd suggest a third category governing
both theory and praxis: fetish. By fetish I mean the underlying ideas of
one's writing life -- what peculiar things have given any particular
writer (or school of writers) pleasure and pain -- and how behavior is
modified to exalt writers who so much as supply the names of the things
that at one point gave someone somewhere a feeling, and to sink writers
who fail to humiliate the appropriate taboos and pariahs.
As for collaboration, the second number of Locus Solus is a good
sourcebook, covering (I think) Chinese, Japanese, Russian, Australian,
French, English and American collaborations in verse up to 1955 or so.
Jordan Davis
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