tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post5528055495030015899..comments2023-12-23T04:56:29.702-05:00Comments on Ferule & Fescue: Writing without a netFlaviahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-35550370888353976812016-01-01T17:08:29.556-05:002016-01-01T17:08:29.556-05:00Undine:
But that part needs to shut up!
S:
Yes,...Undine:<br /><br />But that part needs to shut up!<br /><br />S:<br /><br />Yes, I think that's exactly it--there's such a centripetal force to Milton's works that it's starting to seem as if they're ALLLLL somehow connected to the thing I'm interested in. Also, the fact that I teach a Milton class regularly means I probably know the body of his works better than I know that of any other author. . . and apparently had lots of half-formed thoughts about very minor poems that were just dying to get out.<br /><br />Well--they can be conference papers, if nothing else!Flaviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17832765671541392835noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-86741501423378272632015-12-31T22:22:30.670-05:002015-12-31T22:22:30.670-05:00I think that happens fairly often when writing on ...I think that happens fairly often when writing on Milton. My dissertation chapter on Milton ended up becoming two chapters (and half the dissertation); even after heavy cuts to both, my book has two Milton chapters (though it's now two out of eight). It doesn't surprise me, given the breadth and scope of Milton's output and the range of literary and sociopolitical concerns the work engages; two really meaty and awesome chapters sounds like a plausible outcome.<br /><br />But I'm never sure whether the correct metaphor for writing on Milton is mitosis or metastasis.<br /><br />SvdLAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27054305.post-67214162479885944322015-12-31T21:58:32.121-05:002015-12-31T21:58:32.121-05:00The Milton part may be telling you that it needs t...The Milton part may be telling you that it needs to be a book . . . undinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05589384016564587214noreply@blogger.com