“Why hadn’t I known long before reading Stein–was I such a dunce?–that the art was in the music–it was Joyce’s music, it was James’s music, it was Faulkner’s music; without the music, words fell to earth in prosy pieces; without the music, there was only comprehension, and comprehension may have been analysis, may have been [...]
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For Your Consideration IV – Gass/Stein/Music
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Faulkner, Gertrude Stein, Henry James, Joyce, Three Lives, William H. Gass on May 24, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Reader Rage, Henry James Hate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, Anger, Arnold Bennett, Bill, Canal Street, Charles-Adam Foster-Simard, Edith Wharton, Hate, Henry James, Henry James and the Joys of Binge Reading, How to Make Sense, Literary Taste, People who hate Henry James, Philip Larkin, Quoting Philip Larkin's poem "This be the Verse" without giving him credit, Rage, Rudolf Flesch, The Believer, The Millions, Virgina Woolf, Ward, William Faulkner, William Gass on March 31, 2011 | 17 Comments »
To start, we have two simmering, searing proclamations: In A Temple of Texts, William Gass quoted Arnold Bennett’s book, Literary Taste: …your taste has to pass before the bar of the classics. That is the point, if you differ with a classic, it is you who are wrong, and not the book. (6) In the [...]
For Your Consideration
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged A Temple of Texts, William H. Gass on February 25, 2011 | 30 Comments »
Reading William H. Gass has set my mind to fire. In the essay “The Sentence Seeks Its Form” from A Temple of Texts, Gass speaks of breath as giving life to language: Breath (pneuma) has always been seen as a sign of life, and was once identified with the soul. Don’t fall for phrases like [...]
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