tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post13343421164990463..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: What is real? What is realism?Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-67645520692857666652007-11-18T21:49:00.000-05:002007-11-18T21:49:00.000-05:00Need to jump back one comment, as I've deleted in ...Need to jump back one comment, as I've deleted in order to edit...<BR/>---<BR/>I suspect that Tata, his subject being current publishing trends, is thinking of something rather more limited that what, say, Flaubert or Tugenev represent: the realism of Flaubert become convention, 5th generation in-bred "realism." <BR/><BR/>Sentimental Education and Madame Bovary are works of subversion; only by Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-75173313694964181612007-11-18T20:44:00.000-05:002007-11-18T20:44:00.000-05:00Ha!Thanks for posting that! Blakean Warfare, indee...Ha!<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting that! <BR/><BR/>Blakean Warfare, indeed!<BR/><BR/>I was so concentrated on the Formalist/Realist business that didn't want to get into anything else. <BR/><BR/>This was a great rant--and Tata deserved it, but I think he deserves some distance here--that is, he's on to something, come up with a formula to explain it, and the formula has seriously misled him.<BR/><BRJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-9414661205603432007-11-18T20:25:00.000-05:002007-11-18T20:25:00.000-05:00http://www.rakesprogress.com/bgb/2007/11/comix.htm...http://www.rakesprogress.com/bgb/2007/11/comix.html<BR/><BR/>Here's another response to Tata's posts, from a somewhat different perspective.Imanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-82810155846311165782007-11-18T14:11:00.000-05:002007-11-18T14:11:00.000-05:00I've been following your responses to Tata's point...I've been following your responses to Tata's points and think you are on to something here, something I have come across before in other novels. It is the idea that "realism" narrative, as Tata and others generally define it, is not very realistic it all; on a significant level it is as far from "reality" as one can get because it tames and ties down its elements and threads it together too Imanihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09647980707788075258noreply@blogger.com