How much of an effect do you believe the location a work is written at has upon the work itself?
100%
Some
None
Depends
>>8267430
one of the things I like best about Thomas Hardy novels is the way he describes the countryside
Joyce's Dublin and Dickens' London are very vivid and very much a part of the enjoyment of their books.
OTOH some of Beckett's stuff could take place anywhere. Just a couple of tramps sitting by a tree. Or an old man in his room. Or just a voice that won't stop.
The fucking background context (author, where it was written, when it was written, etc) doesn't mean fucking shit.
Read "Death of the Author"
>>8267513
looool
m8
he's just postulating a question about potential influence on the text, not the reading
>>8267430
Of course. The cozier the landscape the writer surrounds himself in, the cozier his work will be.
>>8267492
>Joyce's Dublin and Dickens' London are very vivid and very much a part of the enjoyment of their books.
But was it required of Joyce and Dickens that they write within their very settings?
Is it not enough that they lived Dublin and London life? Did they have to write their works about those cities while living in those cities in order to achieve mastery of setting that they did?
>>8267539
This is true.
>live in the beautiful Pacific Northwest
>not far from Vancouver, rated one of the most beautiful cities in the world
>my work is still ugly shit
>>8269604
You have done good in placing yourself in a beautiful area. Now you must work on making your soul beautiful.
If you have a ugly soul, then your work shall be ugly as well.
>>8268085
Frost wrote North of Boston while living in England.
German prison in the 1920's...
>>8267430
It depends more on how one perceives and characterizes it than the place itself.
Tai Pei is nothing like The New York Trilogy, for example.
>>8269600
I'd argue that much of those places were not actually all that comfortable in a sense of coziness. There is no intimacy and the overwhelming space combined with lavish embellishment of the furniture/decor would have surely ruined anything cozy about the place.
A fireplace in a cabin with a warm fur is cozy.
A stiff sofa surrounded by chandeliers and platters of figs is not.
>>8267513
lol, New Criticism was debunked like 50 yrs ago. Catch up.
>>8271010
>Comfy meme
Please fuck off
>>8271392
Why would you not fuck onto the comfy meme?
It's comfy as fuck, come on man.
