What helps me write:
1. Thing's i've learned
2. My immediate mood
The assumptions I make from texts i've read, and things i've heard actively shape my writing, but in later stages of writing I'm receptive to any feedback on what i'm writing.
QD 2-6
2. I don't agree with "Porter's Idea" that intertext makes an individual writer less important. The originality of a text comes from the experiance of the writer that shaped the ideas and how they were presented, and not just the idea he's writing about.
3. The idea that a writer forming his own world, rather than funneling information through his own tendencies and inclinations, is admirable.
4. I didn't assume to understand the writers experiance in preperation to analyzing a passage, and I don't think my writing has never been touched on deeper than it's grammatical form.
5. I think Porter makes it immensly clear that his work is not original with the sizely volume of citations. "The most mundane manifestation of intertextuality is explicit citation."
6. The idea that writers are isolated, and heroic limits the success of later generations of writers by confusing the characteristics a student of writing's ambitions follow.
"Porter's words" have certainly broadened my approach to writing, and made me more particular about being socially acceptable, but " I feel" that "his idea's are more important for analyzing literature, not writing it.
I agree with you on the fact that Potter believes intertext makes writers less important. If he were to think about it, he is using intertext as well, so does that mean his writing is less important too?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you for question #2, but I also think that if the writer is using intertext to use other writers work, it's probably because they agree with the writers work.
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