tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post4358569932357589740..comments2024-03-14T02:24:22.876-07:00Comments on Essay Daily: Talk About the Essay: The better question is whether a thing essaysUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-12700873234513880492011-02-12T07:32:11.753-08:002011-02-12T07:32:11.753-08:00Ander is fascinating, as always:
http://brevity.w...Ander is fascinating, as always:<br /><br />http://brevity.wordpress.com/2011/02/12/erasure/Dintyhttp://brevity.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-51565079581240481242011-02-10T13:49:30.506-08:002011-02-10T13:49:30.506-08:00Well you know this is how I feel about the Let'...Well you know this is how I feel about the Let's Blend, Perform Surgery, and Paint the Tin-Man guy too--<br /><br />I don't think of nonfiction as a liquid genre inasmuch as I think of the essay as a liquid genre. The idea of essay as an action/activity that can take place in all sorts of texts is what interests me, right now anyhow.Anderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13162102610439637214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6004423696675838467.post-18242633419882507412011-02-09T16:27:52.351-08:002011-02-09T16:27:52.351-08:00I was wondering just yesterday about varying forms...I was wondering just yesterday about varying forms of 'essaying' while watching Bob Ross paint on PBS. I was sitting there with a beer in hand and trying to collect my thoughts when I started truly listening to his riffs while he scuffed and patted and smeared paint onto canvas. Mr. Ross was essaying and I began to think he was essaying through riffs, through side banter, through painting. I've always joked about how Bob Ross and his happy trees is soothing, but I began to see a world view through the lens that the man's actual act of painting: through one medium springs forth another. Through painting comes the act of essaying. Perhaps, I was drunk (I had one beer), but it all made sense to me. <br /><br />Another thought your post brought up was the idea of nonfiction as a liquid genre, able to solidify itself into any other genre, hence the idea of the lyric and the prose poem. I always wonder where nonfiction's narrative allegiance truly lies in: is it fiction? is it poetry? Is it neither and perhaps yet another medium like television, internet, or song? It seems some of the nonfiction writers who I admire for their bold attempts at essaying challenge the reader and the norm.<br /><br />(Thanks A, for making my gears turn!)Césarhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17415600656487920483noreply@blogger.com