In a message dated 2/20/01 12:30:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, calle@lysator.liu.se writes:
<< Why? I found it quite good when I read it. Not perfect, of course, but there seemed to be a lot of good thinking in it. >>
Jenkins wasn't regarded as 'bad'; his work just came across as as a bit pretentious and his theories were sometimes spot on, sometimes way out in left field, and sometimes from another planet. It was never given much weight as a whole, because he often generalizes when almost every fan has different motivations and inspiration than every other fan on almost everything (one only has to hang out on a typical mailing list for a few days to discover this). Read from beginning to end, you often spot areas where his conclusions seem to be drawn on thin sampling of the fannish milieu in general.
I suppose Jenkins was trying to isolate a phenomenon which might be a bit more universal than any of us suppose.
Leah
Leah wrote:
In a message dated 2/20/01 12:30:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, calle@lysator.liu.se writes:
<< Why? I found it quite good when I read it. Not perfect, of course, but there seemed to be a lot of good thinking in it. >>
Jenkins wasn't regarded as 'bad'; his work just came across as as a bit pretentious
I guess that's going to be a problem with any book that's going to have both an academic audience and an audience from its subject matter.
It was never given much weight as a whole, because he often generalizes when almost every fan has different motivations and inspiration than every other fan on almost everything (one only has to hang out on a typical mailing list for a few days to discover this).
Again, I guess, generalization is inevitable. Of course everyone has different motivations, etc. - we're all different people - but if you're trying to explain a group, then you can't just offer individual explanations.
Una
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Jenkins wasn't regarded as 'bad'; his work just came across as as a bit pretentious and his theories were sometimes spot on, sometimes way out in left field, and sometimes from another planet.
And like many such books, read like a thesis that wasn't really long enough for a proper book so needed a bit of padding to bring it up to length.
Neil
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