... 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...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 19, 2005 10:42 pm
OLD SCHOOL REUNION BLUES "Remember me? Dave?" "Hi, I'm Rich." "Nice to meet you, How's your bitch?" "Well there's another one, Fancy that!" "What that old...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 20, 2005 1:01 pm
This is one of the areas of Evolutionary Biology and Psychology that interest me the most. I so want a dog, but practicalities conspire to prevent it. Would...
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zach@...
syntiment
Nov 20, 2005 1:30 pm
My advice: get a cat. They constantly remind us of the drawbacks and benefits of individuality, and they don't require much maintenance. Dogs are too...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 20, 2005 8:38 pm
FLURRY - by Pete Morgan Even the gulls were bitter mourners, their stark cries were of desolation. Jolted from the night to day they rose from rock and soared...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 20, 2005 9:08 pm
THE CAT THAT WALKED BY HIMSELF - by Rudyard Kipling HEAR and attend and listen; for this befell and behappened and became and was, O my Best Beloved, when the...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 20, 2005 9:15 pm
When the east wind blows up Helford river the shining waters become troubled and disturbed, and the little waves beat angrily upon the sandy shores. The short...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 21, 2005 10:38 pm
Daphne du Maurier's romantic novel *Frenchman's Creek* was published in 1941. Pete Morgan's poem *Flurry* comes from his collection *August Light* which is to...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Nov 22, 2005 12:05 am
... Try Colin Martindale's _The Clockwork Muse_ He does something very similar to that, and he takes a much more quantitative approach, and hence arrives at...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 22, 2005 8:29 am
... [...] ... Thanks Tom - I'll take a look. Meanwhile, here's another question for you. In fact two. The first one sounds as if it's meant to be silly or...
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Tom Dolack
tomdolack
Nov 23, 2005 6:16 pm
Andy: 'Fraid I'll have to pass on your first question out of ignorance, and just a brief note on your second. We'll likely be seeing more along the lines of...
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andy_morleyuk
Nov 23, 2005 9:59 pm
... [...snip...] ... Pattern recognition would seem to be a likely part of this, certainly. New-Guinea cargo-cults in the immediate aftermath of WW2...
