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Re: Otto Rank on disputed authorship
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Thanks for the observation, Stephen. I took the point of your note to
be that interesting works are those that seem multi-vocal. Whether
or not a particular work was in fact written by multiple authors seems
besides that point.
On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Stephen Blackwell wrote:
> I was just looking back over some sections of Otto Rank's Art and
> Artist (in English; Knopf, 1932), a book filled with fascinating
> consonances and dissonances vis-a-vis Nabokov, and stumbled upon a
> passage that I think gives a potent context for the present
> discussion:
>
> ". . .it can hardly be chance that the greatest creations of the
> human spirit, such as the New Testament, the Homeric poems, and
> Shakspere's [sic] plays, should, on the one hand, have been centres of
> academic disputes as to authorship and, on the other, should have
> inspired the imagination of whole centuries in favour of one author"
> (382).
>
>
> It is probably also worth bearing in mind that Timon of Athens is, or
> at least at one time was, one of the plays considered even by
> non-Baconians (i.e. Stratfordians)
> to be of disputed, or perhaps mixed, authorship. I don't have time
> to chase references on that one, sorry. Any annotated edition should
> have the details. And maybe Sam Schuman can chime in with more
> details?
>
> Stephen Blackwell
>
>
>
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be that interesting works are those that seem multi-vocal. Whether
or not a particular work was in fact written by multiple authors seems
besides that point.
On Oct 12, 2006, at 2:49 PM, Stephen Blackwell wrote:
> I was just looking back over some sections of Otto Rank's Art and
> Artist (in English; Knopf, 1932), a book filled with fascinating
> consonances and dissonances vis-a-vis Nabokov, and stumbled upon a
> passage that I think gives a potent context for the present
> discussion:
>
> ". . .it can hardly be chance that the greatest creations of the
> human spirit, such as the New Testament, the Homeric poems, and
> Shakspere's [sic] plays, should, on the one hand, have been centres of
> academic disputes as to authorship and, on the other, should have
> inspired the imagination of whole centuries in favour of one author"
> (382).
>
>
> It is probably also worth bearing in mind that Timon of Athens is, or
> at least at one time was, one of the plays considered even by
> non-Baconians (i.e. Stratfordians)
> to be of disputed, or perhaps mixed, authorship. I don't have time
> to chase references on that one, sorry. Any annotated edition should
> have the details. And maybe Sam Schuman can chime in with more
> details?
>
> Stephen Blackwell
>
>
>
> Search the Nabokv-L archive at UCSB
>
> Contact the Editors
>
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> both co-editors.
>
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