tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post2287105597581998969..comments2023-05-04T05:30:52.090-04:00Comments on Third Floor Republic: The fur-lined bathtubs of moral rectitudestrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05109343770835869181noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-40949291785532647372011-06-05T19:58:19.881-04:002011-06-05T19:58:19.881-04:00:):)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-65117451537323754822011-06-05T18:43:44.405-04:002011-06-05T18:43:44.405-04:00Comes over as what, one wonders.
Anyway, isn'...Comes over as what, one wonders. <br /><br />Anyway, isn't there that scene in A Bend in the River where his main character rapes a woman and suddenly his language slips into the passive? Apparently not even he can make the words his bitch.strayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109343770835869181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-41728793995604022602011-06-05T10:13:19.565-04:002011-06-05T10:13:19.565-04:00Ha, yes, I laughed about that the other day. Poor ...Ha, yes, I laughed about that the other day. Poor soul. <br /><br />But this stings, because it rings plausible: <br />"And inevitably for a woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too," he said.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-74144285552708195862011-06-04T20:13:46.454-04:002011-06-04T20:13:46.454-04:00Those are interesting stats. I'm not sure whet...Those are interesting stats. I'm not sure whether I'm surprised at them or not. But now that VS Naipaul has <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/02/vs-naipaul-jane-austen-women-writers?intcmp=239" rel="nofollow">unzipped his brilliance</a> in public, we are given to understand it's a moot question.strayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109343770835869181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-49586350596972652202011-06-04T17:25:47.214-04:002011-06-04T17:25:47.214-04:00Probably not, if this http://vidaweb.org/the-count...Probably not, if this http://vidaweb.org/the-count-2010 is anything to go by. Plus, the awards stats are still tilted toward men, which may also be an indicator. <br /><br />This change is taking its sweet time.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-83269392157688217112011-06-03T18:09:32.363-04:002011-06-03T18:09:32.363-04:00Do we know if there's been a corresponding shi...Do we know if there's been a corresponding shift in numbers for writers, i.e. more women writing in the novel form than men?strayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109343770835869181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-18720763544995801872011-06-03T10:50:00.160-04:002011-06-03T10:50:00.160-04:00Hmm... If the novels about (difficulty of) woman&#...Hmm... If the novels about (difficulty of) woman's freedom are a permanent interest of the reading public, I'm all for it. This interest also presumes a permanent interest in this beloved invention called the Individual. (Also pro, me.)<br /><br />But there's also the feminization of the reading public for the novel form. Fewer men today read novels than men, and that may also help the continuation of this interest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-65527363143149321132011-06-02T00:44:40.596-04:002011-06-02T00:44:40.596-04:00@rose: literally and figuratively! And yet does it...@rose: literally and figuratively! And yet does it count if it's a matter of choice rather than standard social practice, and if so, how does it count?<br /><br />@dto: I wonder, do we find these novels interesting because they're like the novels that used to be written in the west? or is it just that what interests us, as Lawson suggests, becomes a much narrower field in difficult times, so we're drawn to conflicts we already know and have made consumable? (And, to some degree, dismissible, because it happened to those people back then / those people over there?)strayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05109343770835869181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-1803675985995211742011-06-01T12:14:58.410-04:002011-06-01T12:14:58.410-04:00James Wood made a similar argument in his piece on...James Wood made a similar argument in his piece on why it is people from non-Western backgrounds who write most interesting novels in English these days. I think it was in his review of Monica Ali's Brick Lane. I am criminally simplifying here, but he argued that in those novels rebelling against traditions is still very serious business. The risks are greater, more courage required and so on. Love out of wedlock, adultery and divorce (and, I'd add, same-sex desire) are dangerous for a xeno-woman in a way that (he argues) it stopped being for the West-raised women.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2584861835606857635.post-62451526462838992952011-06-01T01:50:47.609-04:002011-06-01T01:50:47.609-04:00there are more corsets about these days than you...there are more corsets about these days than you can imagine.................Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09336609450397937789noreply@blogger.com