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Post by buhi on Sept 16, 2015 19:59:00 GMT 7
Exactly.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 16, 2015 21:33:50 GMT 7
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Post by rgs2001uk on Sept 16, 2015 22:18:28 GMT 7
No judgemental types on here, let it flow, have at it.
Get it out your system, will feel better for it in the morning.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Sept 16, 2015 22:21:31 GMT 7
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Post by rgs2001uk on Sept 16, 2015 22:23:25 GMT 7
Much better to be here than on The Wheel Of Pain that lies elsewhere.
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Post by buhi on Sept 17, 2015 8:42:18 GMT 7
No judgemental types on here, let it flow, have at it. Get it out your system, will feel better for it in the morning. Very true, I was a tad harsh in my criticism. The problem I have with Blether's "Flash Fiction", is that it is not fiction. They are cliched anecdotes closer to journalism. Fiction shouls suspend our disbelief, make you want to read the next sentence and the next and the next. From the opening sentence of Blether's story it is wholly predictable where it is going, cliched anecdotes. Not a great fan of Jane Austin, but as one reknowned criticic stated, you read a page and nothing happens so you turn the page and still nothing happens, yet you cannot stop reading, waiting for something to happen And in truth nothing of substace ever happens, it is a brillint skill. Or words to that effect . Please continue to write Blether,I want to read something fresh, new and original Your daily comments I enjoy as already stated and they are often thought provoking. You are an excellent jouralist.
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Post by buhi on Sept 17, 2015 9:02:10 GMT 7
It was F.R. Leavis.
As a critic of the novel, Leavis’s main tenet stated that great novelists show an intense moral interest in life, and that this moral interest determines the nature of their form in fiction (Bilan 115). Authors within this "tradition" were all characterised by a serious or responsible attitude to the moral complexity of life and included Jane Austen, George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, and D. H. Lawrence, but excluded Thomas Hardy and Charles Dickens. In The Great Tradition Leavis attempted to set out his conception of the proper relation between form/composition and moral interest/art and life. This proved to be a contentious issue in the critical world, as Leavis refused to separate art from life, or the aesthetic or formal from the moral. He insisted that the great novelist’s preoccupation with form was a matter of responsibility towards a rich moral interest, and that works of art with a limited formal concern would always be of lesser quality.
I do not agree with Leavis and would certainly include Dickens and Hardy, but not Lawrence . A novel does not need to be moral in the broader meaning of the word.That implies religion and that is not a componet of good fiction in my humble opinion.
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