6c2930289c Goldsmith may be right in stating that at this moment in history, literature needs to work harder to keep up with the most vital and exciting cultural discourses of our time (7). The books twelve chapters traverse topics from the materiality, mutability, and instability of language to the transformation of the mundane and mechanical into legitimate art. These attempts to get inside another authors head by copying their work may not reflect the motives of most plagiarists, but they certainly raise questions about what might be learned from these blatantly uncreative acts. Wouldnt copying the authors exact words, as well as his style, be even more effective? Goldsmith ponders. The Weather: Winter, Spring, Summer, Fall, Los Angeles: Make Now, 2005. According to Goldsmith, conventional literary practices have some catching up to do. Navigation menu Personal tools Create accountLog in Namespaces Page Discussion Variants Views Read Edit History Actions Search Navigation Recent Contents Index Features Magazines Artists' cultures Art Architecture Moving Image Sound and Music Literature Software Humanities Countries Cities Monoskop Log Media library Unlimited Edition About Monoskop Help Recent changes Recent files Tools What links here Related changes Special pages Printable version Permanent link Page information Browse properties .
In addressing the most common contestations to his ideas about accepting all language as poetry by mere reframing about what happens to the notion of authorship, about how careers and canons are to be established, about whether the heart of literature is reducible to mere algorithms Goldsmith seconds a sentiment French polymath Henri Poincar shared more then a century ago when he noted that to create is merely to choose wisely from the existing pool of ideas: What becomes important is what you the author [decide] to choose. Growth: The Two Basic Mindsets That Shape Our LivesFamous Advice on Writing: The Collected Wisdom of Great WritersFriedrich Nietzsche on Why a Fulfilling Life Requires Embracing Rather than Running from DifficultyMary Oliver on What Attention Really Means and Her Moving Elegy for Her Soul MateHow to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of InterbeingA Rap on Race: Margaret Mead and James Baldwins Rare Conversation on Forgiveness and the Difference Between Guilt and ResponsibilityThe Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and DiseaseHow to Neutralize Haters: E.E. Three chapters address the growing tendencies of authors to take the most mundane details from daily life and turn them into poetry. Her idea is that, because of changes brought on by technology and the Internet, our notion of genius a romantic isolated figure is outdated. And the examples Goldsmith explores in Uncreative Writing seem to have either presaged or, having appeared more recently, taken full advantage of the techniques the web enables. Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age. In more human terms, this means that whenever you buy a book on Amazon from a link on here, I get a small percentage of its price. Suddenly, we all find ourselves in the same boat grappling with new questions concerning authorship, originality, and the way meaning is forged.
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