Re: rools

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Mon, 02 Mar 1998 08:10:46 -0700 (MST)

I respectfully diagree Scottie--I take the word "novel" seriously and
often that means changing the conventions and rules to fit the story--take
for example cormac mcarthy's unorthodox use of no quotes (and other stuff,
it's been a while since I read him) or David Markson's incredbile
intertextuality in _Reader's Block_--craft and tradition with language may
be important, but good fiction breaks rules as well as following them...I
base my point on _Literature Against Itself_ by Geral Graff.  I am the one
who is questioning mr. salinger's captialization scheme, but before I
sluff it off as "arch," I think I want to think about tim's point about
using caps to empahsize parallel to his use of italics, as well as 
the idea that capitalization quirks could be about Buddy's quirks... 
will

Mar 1998, Scottie Bowman wrote:

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> 	Whatever about Dylan's honesty condoning unorthodoxy, it seems 
> 	to be the case, sadly, that the more restrictions an artist places 
> 	on himself - whether rules of scansion or rhyme or grammar or 
> 	whatever - the cleaner, leaner & more enduring the final product.
> 
> 	Scottie B.
>