Elliott Colla Quotes About Style

• Academic writing you have to get right. Fiction you have to get plausible. And there's a world of difference. In a way, if someone says this didn't feel exactly right, I don't care. But that is not okay to do in academia - it's not about feeling. You want to establish a pretty solid case. So did this allow me to express things differently? Absolutely. Another thing I've been thinking about as an academic: our writing style is expository, and in fiction, withholding information matters quite a bit. Withholding things in academia - there's no place for that!

  Elliott Colla

  Writing, Thinking, Feelings

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• The stories that confirm that bigger story are brought in and easily digested. But there's another set of stories that are always there, which do not confirm, but which complicate and contradict what we think we already know. And I'm always attracted to that. There doesn't seem to be much of a market for it. Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

  Elliott Colla

  Arte, Libro, Pensamiento

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• En los estudios de traducción hablamos de domesticación -estilos de traducción que hacen algo familiar- o de extrañamiento -estilos de traducción que hacen algo radicalmente diferente-. Yo utilizo mucho ambos en mi traducción, y el modernismo hace ambas cosas. Por ejemplo, si nos fijamos en la forma en que James Joyce presenta el Ulises, ¿se trata de domesticar un clásico? Piense en ello como un experimento en relación con un texto conocido en otro idioma.

  Elliott Colla

  Thinking, Style, Different

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• Translated books rarely get reviewed in the press. Books or poems or works of art that don't seem to have a corresponding style or figure or theme, obviously they're hard to digest.

  Elliott Colla

  Art, Book, Style

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com