I am always glad to see the Literary Book Blog Hop-sometimes I admit I feel out of place in a world of YA books, vampire romances and ARC reviews. It is good to meet other people with interests beyond these.
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Every week the hop host provides us with an interesting question. Here is this weeks question:
In the epilogue for Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman writes:
My quick answer to this is "No I do not'. I think this line of thinking comes from a confused way of going from the fact that we experience the literary work with our own perceptions as shaped by our life history to saying that this means that all literary criticism is veiled autobiography. This is a huge leap in logic. I think in saying this you are depriving the word "autobiography" of its meaning and rendering the statement true perhaps but trivial. From this one could just as easily say everything you say is veiled autobiography. This can lead to a kind of celebration of extreme relativism and a glorification of emotion over thought which destroys any point of literary reflection.
Mel u
Every week the hop host provides us with an interesting question. Here is this weeks question:
In the epilogue for Fargo Rock City, Chuck Klosterman writes:
"It's always been my theory that criticism is really just veiled autobiography; whenever someone writes about a piece of art, they're really just writing about themselves."Do you agree?
My quick answer to this is "No I do not'. I think this line of thinking comes from a confused way of going from the fact that we experience the literary work with our own perceptions as shaped by our life history to saying that this means that all literary criticism is veiled autobiography. This is a huge leap in logic. I think in saying this you are depriving the word "autobiography" of its meaning and rendering the statement true perhaps but trivial. From this one could just as easily say everything you say is veiled autobiography. This can lead to a kind of celebration of extreme relativism and a glorification of emotion over thought which destroys any point of literary reflection.
Mel u
