Kingpin wrote:
I think you're being disengenuous Annie. All that's been said is that an opinion on 'art' (using the term in its loosest sense, 'art as artifice') needs to be backed up. Fan discussions, as discusiions of artifacts are closer to Lit. Crit than any other form of expression, hence the falling back on the rules/ideology of criticism as providing a framework.
This feels unduly restrictive to me. Those of us without any lit crit background might feel more comfortable operating without the rules/ideology of literary criticism. It doesn't necessarily mean we're stupid. Surely we can all co-exist on the same Lyst?
Make a point, then back it up. It's called conversation.
No, that's called discussion or even debate.
If someone posts pure opinion, unbacked up with fact or argument, then everyone else is entitled to ignore them.
Tavia
--- Tavia tavia@btinternet.com wrote:
This feels unduly restrictive to me. Those of us without any lit crit background might feel more comfortable operating without the rules/ideology of literary criticism. It doesn't necessarily mean we're stupid.
Of course it doesn't.
Surely we can all co-exist on the same Lyst?
Of course we can! :- )
If someone posts pure opinion, unbacked up with fact or argument, then everyone else is entitled to ignore them.
Which is all I was suggesting, to be fair. I've always felt that lit crit, in it's basic form is something anyone can do, because we all do it every day. Often without realizing it.
One: I really like that record. Two: Why? One: It's the violins. I think. And the chorus is v. catchy.
Identifying the reasons behind things. We all do it. All can do it. Not the exclusive preserve of...well, anyone. Every post I've read on this list has, to some extent or other, demonstrated those skills. It's, as I said, disengenuous on Annie/Bizarro's part to claim that by simply requesting exactly what you requested above, I am being in some way elitist or excluding.
wf
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