Subject: RE: I'm gonna kick your art
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Mon Jul 30 2001 - 21:29:46 GMT
Zazie, you may enjoy Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery by
Jeanette Winterson. In the books's second essay, Winterson asks that
readers make their relationship with their writers "a direct one" but
her point is that the relationship happens on the page. "Check that
the book is made of language, living and not inert, for a true writer
will create a separate reality and her atoms and gases are words."
Like Salinger, I think Winterson is arguing that readers meet writers
on the page and what happens is a separate reality but a reality that
emerges out of the paper (or screen) relationship between writer and
reader. I like the no-nonsense approach Winterson takes to Art and
think she follows Salinger's lead in stressing that the reader has to
do some work instead of simply hoping to be amused and
entertained...will
-- Will Hochman Assistant Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
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