Comments on: Munro scuppers anticipated battle of the titans http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/ Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Barryfitz McMorleyoconnellcuddy http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192114 Barryfitz McMorleyoconnellcuddy Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:50:25 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192114 sorry, i had 'bitchfest' on the brain and suddenly 'showdown' morphed into 'smackdown'. sorry, i had ‘bitchfest’ on the brain and suddenly ‘showdown’ morphed into ‘smackdown’.

]]> By: Alex Good http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192112 Alex Good Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:42:38 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192112 I thought the "lazy journalism" was a bit much, too. But it seems Mr. Beattie's posts are always being stalked by a man (or woman) on a high horse. Mondays have become quite entertaining in that regard. I thought the “lazy journalism” was a bit much, too. But it seems Mr. Beattie’s posts are always being stalked by a man (or woman) on a high horse. Mondays have become quite entertaining in that regard.

]]> By: Alex Good http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192111 Alex Good Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:39:20 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192111 Showdown was the word used in the post, not smackdown (the latter implies a punishing beatdown, though anyone at ECW Press may correct me on that). And are you sure "no-one" was anticipating such a contest? I find that hard to believe. Showdown was the word used in the post, not smackdown (the latter implies a punishing beatdown, though anyone at ECW Press may correct me on that). And are you sure “no-one” was anticipating such a contest? I find that hard to believe.

]]> By: Barryfitz McMorleyoconnellcuddy http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192110 Barryfitz McMorleyoconnellcuddy Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:29:16 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192110 Elana is speaking for Peggy and Alice--the royal bank of canada hegemony lives (I may have the wrong bank . . . can't remember). Um, a borrowed conceit makes for lazy journalism? Show me a news day when this doesn't happen. So, okay, it's not a missed smackdown; it's a somewhat weakened advertising blitz. Elana is speaking for Peggy and Alice–the royal bank of canada hegemony lives (I may have the wrong bank . . . can’t remember).

Um, a borrowed conceit makes for lazy journalism? Show me a news day when this doesn’t happen. So, okay, it’s not a missed smackdown; it’s a somewhat weakened advertising blitz.

]]> By: Elana Rabinovitch http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192109 Elana Rabinovitch Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:59:35 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192109 This 'anticipated battle of the titans' is a romantic notion with no connection to reality. No-one, not least Atwood or Munro, nor the Giller organizers were gleefully rubbing hands together in anticipation of a literary smackdown. Lazy journalism; John Barber used the conceit in his piece - the first on this subject - and everyone else from CP to Q&Q recycles it. This ‘anticipated battle of the titans’ is a romantic notion with no connection to reality. No-one, not least Atwood or Munro, nor the Giller organizers were gleefully rubbing hands together in anticipation of a literary smackdown. Lazy journalism; John Barber used the conceit in his piece – the first on this subject – and everyone else from CP to Q&Q recycles it.

]]> By: Alex Good http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2009/08/31/munro-scuppers-anticipated-battle-of-the-titans/comment-page-1/#comment-192106 Alex Good Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:27:38 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/?p=5008#comment-192106 "By recusing herself, Munro has made it harder to argue that CanLit is dominated by a hegemony of familiar figures that keep popping up again and again." I guess that's one way of looking at it. Or you could say that recognizing her nomination would be a foregone conclusion and recusing herself as an act of noblesse oblige only underlines that hegemony. As for putting her own interests aside, it is a nice gesture, but what does she really have to gain from winning this award (again)? “By recusing herself, Munro has made it harder to argue that CanLit is dominated by a hegemony of familiar figures that keep popping up again and again.”

I guess that’s one way of looking at it. Or you could say that recognizing her nomination would be a foregone conclusion and recusing herself as an act of noblesse oblige only underlines that hegemony. As for putting her own interests aside, it is a nice gesture, but what does she really have to gain from winning this award (again)?

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