{"id":2610,"date":"2014-11-10T06:55:47","date_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:55:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2610"},"modified":"2014-11-10T06:55:47","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T12:55:47","slug":"professor-knocks-updike-in-american-scholar-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/10\/professor-knocks-updike-in-american-scholar-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor knocks Updike in American Scholar post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Plumly, a poet and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland who also writes about literary\u00a0romanticism, ventured\u00a0out of his subject matter\u00a0to talk about 19th- and\u00a020th-century\u00a0fiction writers and <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanscholar.org\/the-art-of-the-sentence\/#.VGCy6Ev4-69\">&#8220;The Art of the Sentence.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Words, as means and matter, were my first take on the art of writing\u2014the obvious fact that writing is first and last words, and that, as Coleridge says, good writing is the best words in their best order,&#8221; Plumly writes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m talking about the art of the sentence, especially the modern sentence as practiced by Henry James, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, James Agee, and Saul Bellow, in which writing becomes the language of the experience. I&#8217;m not talking about a writer such as John Updike, who, too often\u2014notably in his fiction\u2014writes exclusively in the experience of the language.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The brief article appeared under the banner &#8220;Writing Lessons&#8221; and was posted November 10, 2014 on <em>The American Scholar<\/em> website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stanley Plumly, a poet and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland who also writes about literary\u00a0romanticism, ventured\u00a0out of his subject matter\u00a0to talk about 19th- and\u00a020th-century\u00a0fiction writers and &#8220;The Art of the Sentence.&#8221; &#8220;Words, as means and matter, were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/10\/professor-knocks-updike-in-american-scholar-post\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2611,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2610\/revisions\/2611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}