File spoon-archives/bhaskar.archive/bhaskar_1999/bhaskar.9902, message 9


Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:07:36 +0000
From: Mervyn Hartwig <mh-AT-jaspere.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BHA: Anderson on Jameson


Hi Michael

You wrote:
>To be precise, Anderson merely says that Jameson is a "great
>stylist."  
"We are dealing with a great writer." (p.72). OK, the immediate context
is the prose, but the book makes it clear that Anderson has the highest
opinion of the content too. A positively glowing estimation.

>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.  
No. I'm sorry. I gave you completely the wrong impression. I think
Anderson's very probably right, but I'm not as familiar with Jameson as
with Bhaskar (whom I also think a superb writer in a somewhat different
way, and I predict Anderson will agree when he gets round to reading
him). The point of my email (for what it was worth) was to try and
induce those espousing the bad writer thesis in either case to
rethink... (Anderson himself is no slouch as a writer, to put it
mildly.)


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Newsletter of the International Association for Critical Realism
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