Re: Historical fiction
... I don't know about literal gibberish, but this does bring to mind what you see in, e.g., Don DeLillo's _White Noise_. A book in which every character talks
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Re: Historical fiction
Jeff, ... I'm familiar with the discussion. I'm just not convinced by it. Like most attempts to defend strictly mimetic conceptions of art, it often has as
Re: Historical fiction
... Sure. (Although I don't think anyone was claiming that it is or ought to be judged as a historical novel -- I think the digression about historical novels
Re: Historical fiction
... Certainly not. But there are forms of poetry which deliberately exclude themselves from representation as such. In any case, my claim was not about whether
Re: Historical fiction
... No, there are lots of ways of expressing how things are in China (:b) or in other parts of the world for that matter. But I do think (1) that to describe
Re: Lew Rockwell on immigration (corrected link)
In LeftLibertarian2@yahoogroups.com, Joshua Katz ... Sure; that's what I see, too. ... I'm sorry if I was unclear; I didn't mean the bit about
Re: ‘anarchists’ for big gov’t??
... Well, from your reading, can you at least figure out what are *Tucker's* reasons for considering his system "socialistic" or a variety of socialism? For
Re: ‘anarchists’ for big gov’t??
... I'm aware that you've defined "libertarianism" and "socialism" in such a way as to make them mutually exclusive. My point is that recurring to those
Re: Historical fiction
... That sounds like a better description of what a certain kind of novel aims at than what literary art, just as such, aims at. There is plenty of literary
Re: Historical fiction
... Dan, I'm puzzled by your reply. I don't think I set up a "polarity" between facile works and *good* ones; I explicitly stated that there may be historical
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