*g* i deleted a post here earlier where i named names (and then wasn't sure if carolyn was OK with that b/c she was nudging the conversation away from certain topics below) and syne was my first example. three stories before freedom (one was a flashfic documentation challenge) but yes. clearly the dozen pages of comment weren't a function of all her popslash fans coming out...
I do read without recs, and I've actually found one or two writers I enjoyed immensely...except I then realize they were BNFs in their previous fandoms, so my micro discovery really isn't. Mostly I read without recs b/c I need more to read, and if it hit my kink, I'll read stuff I'd never rec and that I don't consider "good," but that serves certain functions for me (Area 52 stuff specifically; I rarely venture to FFnet).
And yes, the one and only. The quote's from Tradition and the Individual Talent, and is where I see him argue against reader response criticism. As a passionate reception aestheticist, this is my ironic reader response icon...Eliot would hate what we're doing, wouldn't he??? :-)
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Re: aesthetic objectivity 2/2
Date: 2006-03-20 07:20 pm (UTC)I do read without recs, and I've actually found one or two writers I enjoyed immensely...except I then realize they were BNFs in their previous fandoms, so my micro discovery really isn't. Mostly I read without recs b/c I need more to read, and if it hit my kink, I'll read stuff I'd never rec and that I don't consider "good," but that serves certain functions for me (Area 52 stuff specifically; I rarely venture to FFnet).
And yes, the one and only. The quote's from Tradition and the Individual Talent, and is where I see him argue against reader response criticism. As a passionate reception aestheticist, this is my ironic reader response icon...Eliot would hate what we're doing, wouldn't he??? :-)