Comments on: Blogging the Classics http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/ The Vector Editorial Blog Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:58:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU hourly 1 By: Juliette http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34979 Juliette Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:56:01 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34979 Excellent - thanks for the precis - I felt privileged to have been part of such an event. Excellent - thanks for the precis - I felt privileged to have been part of such an event.

]]> By: The Book Depository - Cheap books with free delivery worldwide !!! http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34966 The Book Depository - Cheap books with free delivery worldwide !!! Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:42:56 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34966 [...] Literary Festival can be found at the Guardian, The Times, Other Stories, Eve's Alexandria and Torque Control. [...] [...] Literary Festival can be found at the Guardian, The Times, Other Stories, Eve’s Alexandria and Torque Control. [...]

]]> By: Niall http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34955 Niall Wed, 02 Apr 2008 22:46:54 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34955 No problem -- and thanks for posting the full text of your bit. :) No problem — and thanks for posting the full text of your bit. :)

]]> By: dovegreyreader http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34948 dovegreyreader Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:43:07 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34948 Niall, that's such a great appraisal of the event, it's going in my scrapbook! Difficult to know what's happening when you're doing it. So much more we could have discussed but at least we got blogging into a mainstream litfest and many thanks to OUP for putting that event on. Niall, that’s such a great appraisal of the event, it’s going in my scrapbook!
Difficult to know what’s happening when you’re doing it. So much more we could have discussed but at least we got blogging into a mainstream litfest and many thanks to OUP for putting that event on.

]]> By: cofax http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34925 cofax Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:19:19 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34925 Great summary, Niall, and thanks for providing it. Great summary, Niall, and thanks for providing it.

]]> By: Niall http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34922 Niall Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:54:39 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34922 You're welcome, both of you; and Mark, thanks for your contributions to the panel. It was a very interesting discussion. You’re welcome, both of you; and Mark, thanks for your contributions to the panel. It was a very interesting discussion.

]]> By: Mark Thwaite http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34914 Mark Thwaite Tue, 01 Apr 2008 16:36:57 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34914 Thanks for taking the time to do such an excellent summing up ... it was a nice event and I feel privileged to have been a part of it. Thanks for taking the time to do such an excellent summing up … it was a nice event and I feel privileged to have been a part of it.

]]> By: Simon Thomas http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34906 Simon Thomas Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:38:11 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34906 I was also there - thanks for the great summary and pictures, will be useful to remind me of what went on. A fun and fascinating discussion. I was also there - thanks for the great summary and pictures, will be useful to remind me of what went on. A fun and fascinating discussion.

]]> By: Nick Hubble http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34904 Nick Hubble Tue, 01 Apr 2008 10:27:21 +0000 http://vectoreditors.wordpress.com/2008/04/01/blogging-the-classics/#comment-34904 John Mullan's argument seems almost to be that the increase of blogging is a result of academics failing to give proper value judgements - surely it is the other way round? The rise of blogging, book groups etc is a reaction against being told what is canonical by academics (although academics among themselves are really no more than other book groups). As both an academic and a reader, I don't want somebody giving me firm value judgements (I can make my own) but I do want to read (and write) academic criticism that engages me and adds an extra layer to the text. The blogosphere provides a better format for debating value anyway (as long as it doesn't get obsessed by ranking). Academic opinion is in far more danger of being flattened by the indiscriminate import of management practrices than it is by people blogging about books. John Mullan’s argument seems almost to be that the increase of blogging is a result of academics failing to give proper value judgements - surely it is the other way round? The rise of blogging, book groups etc is a reaction against being told what is canonical by academics (although academics among themselves are really no more than other book groups). As both an academic and a reader, I don’t want somebody giving me firm value judgements (I can make my own) but I do want to read (and write) academic criticism that engages me and adds an extra layer to the text. The blogosphere provides a better format for debating value anyway (as long as it doesn’t get obsessed by ranking).

Academic opinion is in far more danger of being flattened by the indiscriminate import of management practrices than it is by people blogging about books.

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