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Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Proposal

Anyway, I also have a book proposal done. I'm uncertain of it: this is the hardest genre, the  book proposal, the grant proposal. It doesn't seem to represent the richness of the work itself, but I'm not always sure what I am leaving out. 

There are something like five books on Beckett and music. I guess you can call this a speciality within a speciality. It's odd because a non-canonical writer would never have this. If someone is not very canonical then there is no room for subspecialties, there would be one book about the author or 2 at most. The whole idea of "Ezra Pound and music," or "Lorca and the visual arts" implies the existence of critical industries that can be divided into subcategories.  The process is almost humorous, in that there would be no topic too trivial if the writer is canonical enough: "Proust and insects." 

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