My first response is, who needs a memory when we've got Google?
> My memory--ha!--tells me that we once had a discussion on this
> listserv about voice, I'm not referring to the discussion of
> authenticity/"real" writing, but more along the lines of "helping
> students find their own voices"--or perhaps that was only one aspect
> of the discussion.
And I had no memory of that discussion at all. But . . . if you go to
the CASLL archive -- which is here:
http://listserv.unb.ca/archives/casll.html
-- and search for any messages with "voice" in the subject, voila,
there's the discussion, _ten years_ ago. (What a memory, Coe! and
translates Latin, too.)
Doug Brent started the thread by asking this:
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Date: Sun, 19 Mar 1995 10:07:24 MST
From: Doug Brent <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: "Voice"
I'm trying to put my finger on some of the literature that's come
out
since the 70's on authorial "voice." In particular I'm interested
in
specific material on how a writer manages voice in a text, what it
means
to have an authentic voice etc. A lot of this grows out of the
expressivist school, but the concentraion of "voice" as a root
metaphor
then seems to me to go underground. The metaphor shifts from voice
to
rhetorical situation, audience etc. The emphasis on persona as
"speaker"
gets a bit fuzzy.
Any suggestions on where the idea of writer as metaphorical
"speaker"
crops up in later literature?
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And it goes on from there. You can read it chronologically if you just
scroll down to March 1995 on the main archive page.
-- Russ
Russell Hunt
Department of English
St. Thomas University
http://www.stu.ca/~hunt/
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