... writing ... they ... In fact, poets could find an unlimited number of niches for their work outside this list, all of which would, one way or another, ...
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biopoet@yahoogroups.com
Nov 11, 2005 9:53 am
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the biopoet group: Is literary meaning open to explanation in terms of concrete particulars, such as...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 11, 2005 11:16 am
... There once were two cats of Kilkenny, Each thought there was once cat too many, So they fought and they fit, And they scratched and they bit, Till...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 11, 2005 11:39 am
... [reverse snip] ... Understood, and I know how these poll things work, but would appreciate some prior discussion, particularly definition of terms... ... ...
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zach@...
syntiment
Nov 11, 2005 11:54 am
Any ambiguity in this poll is intentional. If we get into specific definitions of meaning here, we'll skew the results of the poll. Let us wait until all the...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 11, 2005 12:23 pm
... Cool....
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Nov 11, 2005 4:54 pm
A few months ago, I asked members of this list to identify their top ten favorite Anglophone books of the past forty years or so. There were a lot of...
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biopoet@yahoogroups.com
Nov 11, 2005 7:55 pm
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the biopoet group. File : /Art and...
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joaimone
Nov 11, 2005 11:35 pm
... It's a fine example of the survival of folk poetry, certainly, but hardly original work. Maybe that makes it a meme. And, an apparent product of the...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 12, 2005 8:46 am
... What do you mean by 'original'..? I quoted the story of 'Rindercella' in the Yahoo Literature List, attributing it to Ronnie Barker. Someone told me that...
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joaimone
Nov 12, 2005 5:28 pm
I have to apologize for wasting your, and everybody else's, time in this exchange. I mistook your postings for wryly toned but ultimately serious dicsussion....
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 12, 2005 5:37 pm
... Why do you think they aren't serious..?...
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joaimone
Nov 12, 2005 8:04 pm
... Directe revelation from God....
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 12, 2005 8:25 pm
... Look, I can see from the way this correspondence is headed that it's likely to degenerate into a flame war. Rather than inflict that on the other members...
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eugenehalton
Nov 12, 2005 10:18 pm
... ultimately ... It seems to me to have been much more than that. It was humorous! In Testaments Betrayed, Milan Kundera describes the parallel rise of humor...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 13, 2005 11:56 am
Rational people - I count myself one of these - often make the mistake of assuming that other people are rational too. Adam Smith. Enlightened self-interest....
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joaimone
Nov 13, 2005 5:17 pm
... likely to ... This is not necessarily so. I did originally propose an alterantive to allowing this discussion forum to become a workshop for original ...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Nov 13, 2005 7:18 pm
As an attempt to veer the discussion back a little more towards the literary, I'd like to raise a question that comes out of William Benzon's "Signposts for a...
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zach@...
syntiment
Nov 14, 2005 6:57 am
As much as I appreciate the need for new directions in literary exploration, I see no alternative but to conclude that the question Moretti poses is ultimately...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 14, 2005 12:06 pm
... The work of Moretti's that Tom Dolack is referring to is NOT conjecture at all. ... Poor analogy. Moretti is asking a question about the distribution over...
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zach@...
syntiment
Nov 14, 2005 12:40 pm
Fair enough--there was little to go on to answer the question than what I read in the review, so it's definitely possible that I don't understand the nature of...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 14, 2005 2:55 pm
on 11/14/05 7:40 AM, zach@... at zach@... wrote: [snip] ... I don't have time to write a more detailed account of Moretti than what I ...
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Mike Tintner
andarot
Nov 14, 2005 8:33 pm
There is obviously truth to the idea that genres rise and fall in popularity. But I'm dubious about any precision being attached to it pace Moretti. Try...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 14, 2005 10:54 pm
Neither Moretti nor I make any claims about being able to spot trends in the present. Moretti¹s claim is about what in fact happened in the British novel in...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 14, 2005 11:22 pm
... [...] ... I thought the Moretti ideas were interesting. But I SO identified with Zach N when he said : << We should run away from metaphysical conjecture,...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Nov 15, 2005 1:21 pm
I've attached a notice about two Star Island conferences on "Emergence: Nature's Mode of Creativity." PLENARY SPEAKERS: Stuart Kauffman, Santa Fe Institute and...
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Andy Morley
andy_morleyuk
Nov 17, 2005 12:09 pm
The other day, I discovered a really cool new email group on the Internet. About Biopoetics. Perfect for me, or so I thought... I'm a poet with a strong...
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William Benzon
bbenzon
Nov 17, 2005 6:01 pm
David Smith, The Evolution of the Unconscious: http://www.psychoanalytischeperspectieven.be/on-line%20papers/papers/Smith.p df An interview with...
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Martin Skov
mskov_dk
Nov 18, 2005 2:46 am
Dear group I just posted a short comment, prompted by D.T. Max's recent NYT Magazine article, on the use of brain science in literary darwinism, and biopoetics...
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Joseph Carroll
clelburn1949
Nov 18, 2005 5:25 pm
In his blog posting on the D. T. Max NY Times Magazine article, Martin Skov mentioned that my website did not yet contain the introduction to Darwinian...
