http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/07/the-ear/ Thu, 12 Jan 2012 08:40:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/07/the-ear/#comment-655 Ange Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:07:30 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=301#comment-655 Hi Chris - Honestly, I'm not sure what he means by this "new mode" neither performative nor auditory. He doesn't give examples. It sounds terrible. Hi Chris – Honestly, I’m not sure what he means by this “new mode” neither performative nor auditory. He doesn’t give examples.
It sounds terrible.
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]]> http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2007/07/the-ear/#comment-654 Chris L Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:40:17 +0000 http://pf/harriet/?p=301#comment-654 I found this Gass quote in a Paris Review interview... "I think contemporary fiction is divided between those who are still writing performatively and those who are not. Writing for voice, in which you imagine a performance in the auditory sense going on, is traditional and old-fashioned and dying. The new mode is not performative and not auditory. It's destined for the printed page and you are really supposed to read it the way they teach you in speed-reading. You are supposed to crisscross the page with your eye, getting references and gists; you are supposed to see if lowing on the page, and not sound it in the head. If you do sound it, it is so bad you can hardly proceed. It can't all have been written by Dreiser, but it sounds like it. <i>Gravity's Rainbow</i> was written for print, <i>J.R.</i> was written by the mouth for the ear. By the mouth for the ear; that's the way I'd like to write. I can still admire the other-- the way I admire surgeons, bronc busters, and tight ends. As writing, it is that foreign to me." I found this Gass quote in a Paris Review interview…
“I think contemporary fiction is divided between those who are still writing performatively and those who are not. Writing for voice, in which you imagine a performance in the auditory sense going on, is traditional and old-fashioned and dying. The new mode is not performative and not auditory. It’s destined for the printed page and you are really supposed to read it the way they teach you in speed-reading. You are supposed to crisscross the page with your eye, getting references and gists; you are supposed to see if lowing on the page, and not sound it in the head. If you do sound it, it is so bad you can hardly proceed. It can’t all have been written by Dreiser, but it sounds like it. Gravity’s Rainbow was written for print, J.R. was written by the mouth for the ear. By the mouth for the ear; that’s the way I’d like to write. I can still admire the other– the way I admire surgeons, bronc busters, and tight ends. As writing, it is that foreign to me.”
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