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 --- from list bhaskar-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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