Re: Seymour an Introduction

You haven't read very much criticism, Scottie, obviously :).

Although I've often felt the same way you do...nothing is more
absolutely annoying than bad literary criticism.

That doesn't mean the good doesn't exist, though.

Jim

Scottie Bowman wrote:

>
> '... I've never read a piece of [...]criticism [...] that
> made [...] fiction less than what it is for me ...'
>
> I would have change that 'made' into 'didn't make'.
>
> Perversely, I think I might write 'biography' instead of
> 'criticism' if I were trying to find a source of enrichment.
> How unfashionable is it possible to reveal oneself?
>
> But old Keats was speaking in his rough, inarticulate
> way for multitudes when he complained about people
> who - what was it? - wanted to unpick the rainbow.
> (I'm sure I can depend on the scholars to provide
> the exact quote.)
>
> 'Ain't nuttin' but the text,' intones Matt in that strange
> Tibetan chant of his. No, nuttin' but page after page
> after page of speculative, modish, jargonesque guff.
>
> Scottie B.
>
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