File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1999/bhaskar.9902, message 5


From: MSPRINKER-AT-ccmail.sunysb.edu
Date: Thu, 04 Feb 1999 01:06:19 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: BHA: Anderson on Jameson



               State University of New York at Stony Brook
                       Stony Brook, NY 11794-3355

                                            Michael Sprinker
                                            Professor of English & Comp Lit
                                            Comparative Studies
                                            516 632-9634
                                            04-Feb-1999 01:02am EST
FROM:  MSPRINKER
TO:    Remote Addressee                     ( _bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu )
 
Subject: Anderson on Jameson

To be precise, Anderson merely says that Jameson is a "great
stylist."  One presumes that Mervyn would quarrel with that
judgment--on much the same grounds as Denis Dutton did in awarding
Jameson the "bad writing" prize sometime back.  But what, pray,
are the criteria of "good writing" against which Jameson's prose
is to be measured?  As a sometime teacher of writing myself, 
I'm genuinely curious about the standard being invoked.  Presumably,
there ought to be a real definition of "bad writing," if the term
is to have any meaning other than as a general term of abuse.

Michael Sprinker


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