tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post6754987692658262411..comments2023-09-29T02:49:02.989-07:00Comments on An Emphatic Umph: Thoughts on Style & ComportmentDaniel Coffeenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-50370145992896512802011-06-16T11:37:20.086-07:002011-06-16T11:37:20.086-07:00I liked how you related style to our differences i...I liked how you related style to our differences in perception. Recently saw a great film which my friend despised, but I loved. It's a different way of looking at shit I suppose.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-39382620264278561812011-06-14T17:25:29.610-07:002011-06-14T17:25:29.610-07:00I don't think it's matter of judging the b...I don't think it's matter of judging the best style. If style is a way of going, some ways of going resonate with me but not with you. I love William Burroughs' style but I don't expect everyone will share my love. This love of mine is born of a certain resonance — Burroughs literally resonates with how I go, with my own speed and metabolism. <br /><br />So the criteria of assessment are local.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-24090640344471192012011-06-14T17:02:07.252-07:002011-06-14T17:02:07.252-07:00We all pride ourselves in having styles which in m...We all pride ourselves in having styles which in most cases translate to something insignificant in the aura of another person perceived to have a more acceptable style.<br /><br />Who has the best style and upon what parameters does the adjudged best style emerge?Emeka Amakezehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03933290792820413011noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-82917631619851168132011-06-13T15:31:19.048-07:002011-06-13T15:31:19.048-07:00Wow — good to know classes like that are being tau...Wow — good to know classes like that are being taught. <br /><br />One of the best classes I taught was to MFAs (fine artists) called The Phenomenology of Style. I broke the class of 24 into 3 groups of 8. Each group was assigned an artist. Everyone in the group had to present found images in the style of that artist. At the end of the semester, each student had to create a work in the style of their artist — but in a different medium.<br /><br />So: the point of copping someone else's style is (amongst other things) to learn what style is. And to learn some good, nasty moves from that person that you can incorporate into your own style.Daniel Coffeenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03912050391869734890noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7461948747659071092.post-71283562144614843312011-06-12T21:40:03.562-07:002011-06-12T21:40:03.562-07:00I'm taking a class in the fall that's call...I'm taking a class in the fall that's called something like Issues in Contemporary Rhetorical Theory: On Style and it's taught by one of the few people in the department that I've really enjoyed being in class with. So hopefully I will be thinking about style a lot in the coming months. <br /><br />I basically agree that style emerges, rather than being something that is prior to, but what about when you're teaching and you ask your class to write like someone else? Like, try to adopt Whitman's style or whatever. In that case, what does Style become? Before I "found my writing voices" - I think I have at least 2-3 - one that's forced on me because of academic conventions and one that's more or less the way I write when I'm blogging - I copied, sometimes painfully copied. After I read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, I couldn't write anything without coming off that a crappy version of him.drwatsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16184322472302989822noreply@blogger.com