Letters/characters

From Roy Harris. I'm not sure where. Perhaps Rethinking Writing

'The great English lexicographer, Dr Johnson, when asked why he considered the Chinese barbarians, replied:

"Sir, they have not an alphabet."

Something not far removed from this ethnocentricity still survives in scholarly studies of writing systems today.

A welcome antidote to such cultural snobbery is this book's timely reminder that what letters 'stand for' is what we make them stand for. Not long ago I saw an alphabet in which F stood for 'French fries'. Why not? But that would have been incomprehensible to school children of my generation, and meaningless to Shakespeare. Letters, like other public signs, reflect no more than the society they serve.'

Brief for week 5

Brief – The Paper Stage: Thinking of the page as a site for writing, produce a series of 5 non-standard page spaces with texts which are a response to the nature of that site. Accompanying the work should be a set of critical responses to the outcomes.

identity crisis

seemed vaguely related to MA performance writing:
http://flofflach.blogspot.com/2010/10/identified.html

More Stuff That's Interesting.......I hope

http://www.winningwriters.com/

3 out of 4 girls who started MA performance writing brought red handbags

and the redness continues in the second week...
with hint of blue and green

well look ee here.......
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/index.php

aaaarg.org

In case you haven't been there yet, this is a very good online resource for articles.