[lit-ideas] Re: Style?

  • From: "Stan Spiegel" <writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 12:54:58 -0400

Eric - Thanks for that article. I found it illuminating and enjoyable.

Stan
Portland, Maine

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Phil Enns" <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 11:49 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Style?


> Scribe1865@xxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> "Writing style: unconscious expression of power relations, or just plain
> old fun?"
> 
> My favourite definition of style:
> 
> "One who is existing is continually in the process of becoming; the
> actually existing subjective thinker, thinking, continually reproduces
> this in his existence and invests all his thinking in becoming.  This is
> similar to having style.  Only he really has style who is never finished
> with something but 'stirs the waters of language' whenever he begins, so
> that to him the most ordinary expression comes into existence with
> newborn originality." (Kierkegaard, CUP)
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Phil Enns
> Toronto, ON
> 
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