Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2002 17:29:11 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <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)

Reminds me that I need to contact the Xeno Travel Agency, whose motto is =
"Slowly I turned, step by step . . ."

mjw

, in English
>rather than in Latin for the sake of the list, by all means do so.
>
>Kit
>
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>
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