From Aara.Suksi@ualberta.ca Sun Jan 21 18:59:11 2001 Received: from mxu2.u.washington.edu (mxu2.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.9]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id SAA17086 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:59:10 -0800 Received: from pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca (pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca [129.128.5.19]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id SAA29828 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:59:09 -0800 Received: from [129.128.230.61] (masmax2-port-29.mas.ualberta.ca [129.128.230.61]) by pilsener.srv.ualberta.ca (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0M2x8e09126 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 19:59:08 -0700 (MST) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: asuksi@pop.srv.ualberta.ca Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <3A6C1A39.7199.DFCE339@localhost> References: <4.3.2.7.0.20010120154458.00a96100@watarts.uwaterloo.ca> <3A6C1A39.7199.DFCE339@localhost> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:01:13 -0700 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Aara Suksi Subject: Re: Seasons again Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" I have been troubled by the ferocity of the rhetoric martialed against Carson in this thread. It could be argued that she has opened the eyes of many, who would otherwise never have been aware of it, to the Greek poetic tradition through her re-creation of parts of it. This seems to me to be a kind of creative endeavour akin to that which engaged most ancient poets. A number of colleagues from the English department at my university have asked me about the classical background to such pieces as Autobiography of Red. Although I think some of the criticisms raised have been valid, and my comments are not intended to refute those criticisms, I find the vehemence of the reaction to her by some on this list a bit like that of the myth students who scoff at the Greek myths for containing logical inconsistencies. For what it's worth, I had meant the message copied below to go to George Robertson alone. I mistakenly hit the reply button, and so unintentionally provoked Steve Willett's understandable curiosity. Aara Suksi >On 20 Jan 2001, at 22:23, Aara Suksi wrote: > >> >> Many thanks, George, both for the most intelligent contribution to >> this troubling thread, and for mentioning the conference. >> All the best, >> Aara > >What's "troubling" about it? > > >Steven J. Willett >University of Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Campus >2-3 Nunohashi 3-chome >Hamamatsu City, Japan 432-8012 >Voice and Fax: (53) 457-4514 >Japan email: steven@sizcol1.u-shizuoka-ken.ac.jp >US email: sjwillett@earthlink.net -- Aara L. Suksi Department of History and Classics University of Alberta asuksi@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca http://www.ualberta.ca/~asuksi/home.html .