Sunday, October 01, 2006
American Authors Post
So, why don't we post this week on whom you've chosen for your author study and why. I'd like to hear your reasons for chosing the author, the time period, even the genre (i.e. why you chose a poet, or a horror writer...) Rachel Gordon sent me a link that I found very interesting. If any of you hasn't chosen an author (!), you might want to choose Robert Frost. Shortly, they are going to post a new poem by him that's just been found and verified. Exciting stuff. It could be the centerpiece for a very cool multi-genre paper!
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I am planning on basing my mutligenre project on the books written by Robert Anton Wilson. I think that I was destined to do my project on him because before I even read a book of his I had no idea of whom I would do the project on. As soon as I finished the book I knew that I wanted to choose him. His books are jam packed with interesting scenerios that are often very humorous. His way of thinking is truly original and I wanted to find that in an author.
The book that I read is complicated enough that i'm going to guess that it is science fiction. It contains multiple universes and covers conspiracies, loops, and repeatedly mentions Schrodinger's cat, which is alive half the time and dead the other half. That book belongs to a Schrodinger's cat trilogy, and there are also the Illuminatus! trilogies which are science fiction as well. His Cosmic Trigger series are autobiographical and philosophical works, which I want to read. As for the time period,I think that Robert Wilson would fall under the Post-Modernism slot.
http://who2.com/ask/robertantonwilson.html
Hi, Blaine. Interesting choice! Above is a link to some biographical information, including an interview with Mr. Wilson.
http://www.rawilson.com/main.shtml
This site is his own site...pretty far out stuff! Apparently they've called him everything from a 21st Century Renaissance man to "deliberately annoying". You can have a lot of fun with paradox, that's for sure, based on your first book alone!
He's certainly deliberately provoking. I hope you enjoy the project. I look forward to your first journals!
For my author I have choosen to do the books of Ernest Hemingway. I am almost done with my first selection, The Old Man and the Sea. I chose the book by interest of a peer, as well recommendation of Mrs. Vigue. I enjoy the style of Hemingway. It is not as exciting and mysterious as Blaines choice, but I like where the book is headed. It began with a bland, somewhat depressing beginning, but as the old man is faced with such a large choice, you see he is headed deeply in one way or opposite in another. I cannot wait to read the final outcome of this man, to see whether he has lost it all or has truly done well. I write in hopes that the rest of my Hemingway selections are as compelling and attention holding as this first choice. I know, that if so my multi-genre study will be exciting to write.
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