tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1273420145917074292.post4050880714660107996..comments2024-01-24T15:06:13.387-05:00Comments on M.A.Peel: Blogs: Where Noms de Plume Rule!Mapeelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1273420145917074292.post-10328671614114021152011-06-16T00:25:56.517-04:002011-06-16T00:25:56.517-04:00Sorry, I beg to differ. Evans and the Brontës stil...Sorry, I beg to differ. Evans and the Brontës still set out to deceive. Their deception was entirely right and understandable, given the prejudices of their age, but ultimately they were pulling the same stunt as McMaster: by manufacturing an authorial identity, they set out to change the readers' perception of the text, and to give it more authority. In the 19th century, it was believed thatTim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1273420145917074292.post-64867396141519919482011-06-14T07:59:38.307-04:002011-06-14T07:59:38.307-04:00Tim, Evans and Bronte writing under male names was...Tim, Evans and Bronte writing under male names was less to deceive than to be taking seriously as writers. <br /><br />From Wiki:<br />Averse to personal publicity, we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambiguous choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves Mapeelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12149683683413237283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1273420145917074292.post-61318615882485968372011-06-14T05:03:35.233-04:002011-06-14T05:03:35.233-04:00Although writing from the perspective of the other...Although writing from the perspective of the other gender is a common literary exercise in "dead tree publishing", I would very much like to know about the motivations of the straight male Syrian lesbian and of the editor of Lez Get Real, who is also a bloke. It's just... bizarre.<br />Regarding my own "nom de plume", it allows me to write freely about life on a very smallKitty Hannahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09954942776209037501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1273420145917074292.post-34126029137645290512011-06-14T03:58:23.176-04:002011-06-14T03:58:23.176-04:00What about those pseudonyms actively intended to d...What about those pseudonyms actively intended to deceive? I suppose gender switches such as George Eliot and Currer Bell were along those lines, but the more recent, but the straight male Syrian lesbian is getting a good old digital kicking for his deception...Tim Fhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14681067872556519250noreply@blogger.com