tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post7615519650652911566..comments2023-11-02T03:03:51.375-07:00Comments on Now and Rome: Towards an Erotics of ReceptionIkahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-48462614051537656282009-09-20T19:12:06.358-07:002009-09-20T19:12:06.358-07:00Ika, yes, I misread the call for papers initially....Ika, yes, I misread the call for papers initially. However, I've thought about it a bit more, and I've realised that it actually might be possible for me to get to Bristol next year after all -- and I will be sending you an abstract sometime in the next month or so, I hope!Beppiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978034922666542510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-29434495648309621352009-09-05T04:15:08.499-07:002009-09-05T04:15:08.499-07:00Hey, I never got back to you, Beppie - sorry, I wa...Hey, I never got back to you, Beppie - sorry, I was on the brink of leaving Australia and everything non-urgent got delayed. It's not in Canada, it's in the UK - but I'm guessing your chances of getting there are even slimmer...Ikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-78431909460201036322009-08-20T22:28:47.030-07:002009-08-20T22:28:47.030-07:00I'd love to be there, but my chances of gettin...I'd love to be there, but my chances of getting to Canada next year are slim to none.Beppiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11978034922666542510noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-44579990321832740012009-08-13T19:58:48.403-07:002009-08-13T19:58:48.403-07:00Hooray! I think it is going to be really good.Hooray! I think it is going to be really good.Ikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-6365838654932748062009-08-13T03:24:42.809-07:002009-08-13T03:24:42.809-07:00I'll be there, obviously. I'd like to writ...I'll be there, obviously. I'd like to write about Marilynne Robinson's (fannish) rewriting of her own novel <i>Gilead</i>, in her latest novel <i>Home</i>, but I'm not sure there's a paper in it (or whether it quite suits the conference). But I'll be there: it sounds brilliant.Una McCormackhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08946949711109912505noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-34775643507382745482009-08-11T19:09:52.696-07:002009-08-11T19:09:52.696-07:00Oh, really pleased that you will be able (probably...Oh, really pleased that you will be able (probably) to come! And I understand about the overcommitment thing. (We're hoping to have as much time as possible for discussion, in any case, so hopefully there won't be as big a divide as usual between presenters and attendees...)<br /><br />Yes, I think you're right about the school experience thing: I'm always intrigued by that disconnect people (at least fannish people!) experience between how much they like talking/analyzing at cons or in zines, and how resistant they are to 'academic' analysis, though.Ikahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16954104097396714498noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7106797429392727612.post-44353216761424912742009-08-11T05:12:11.840-07:002009-08-11T05:12:11.840-07:00My attempts to avoid overcommitment next year mean...My attempts to avoid overcommitment next year mean I shan't be submitting an abstract, but the fact that it's on a Saturday gives me a good chance of actually going. which I certainly want to do, as it looks very interesting.<br /><br />The thing about analysis and love being antithetical I suspect comes from school experience, and being made to read literary works for class that one doesn't want to (this is nothing to do with the quality of teaching, it's just the child's natural resistance to being forced to do anything). Some people never get past that; it's why, I think, there's so much hostility to academic study of sf, as sf readers assume that academic study will destroy their love for the texts. This is nonsense (and disproved by the self-same people being happy to indulge in long speculative analysis of the same texts on the Internet or in fanzines or in the pub), but it's a hard attitude to shift.Tony Keenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07125792825206480340noreply@blogger.com