Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:24:55 -0500
From: Kit Mason <kit at hers.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: time travel
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

Ted White wrote:
>
> Your comments about "Heinlein's 'authorial voice'" (that should be "auctorial
> voice") suggest to me that you've read less of (or forgotten) his seminal
> pre-1960 work than you have his execrable post-1960 work.

Since the literary criticism classes where I studied were conducted in
English, and the Latin classes were in Latin, we used "authorial voice"
to mean the situation where the characters' attitudes and words are so
nearly indistinguishable from the author's prejudices that the result is
closer to a treatise than a story.

If, however, you would like to discuss such things as examples of
hysteron proteron in the works of Heinlein (or anyone else), in English
rather than in Latin for the sake of the list, by all means do so.

Kit

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