{"id":39482,"date":"2017-06-22T13:54:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:54:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/world.edu\/?p=39482"},"modified":"2017-06-22T13:54:35","modified_gmt":"2017-06-22T20:54:35","slug":"blogging-in-the-growlery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/blogging-in-the-growlery\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging in the growlery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Like Shakespeare, Charles Dickens liked to invent new words. Along with flummox, abuzz, and whiz-bang, he is also often credited with \u2018the growlery\u2019, which he mentioned in passing in Bleak House. There is some debate about whether this word is his creation, and most dictionaries suggest it is an archaic term he adopted but that it\u2019s no longer in use.<\/p>\n

Now, like more than a few others, I\u2019m a bit put out by the idea that the term growlery isn\u2019t useful any more. I happen to think it\u2019s a very helpful word.<\/p>\n

So what does it mean, this growlery, I hear you ask. (She writes this as if you can\u2019t guess\u2026) \u00a0Just as an observatory is a place you go to observe, a growlery is a place you go to, well yes, to growl. It\u2019s officially dictionary-defined as a place you retreat to, alone and ill-humoured.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an evocative word and I usually associate it with a Dickens-type figure clad in Victorian best harrumphing while pacing up and down in a dimly lit, book lined, leather furniture filled study. I\u2019m sure you can summon up your own image of the growlery and its grumpy inhabitant.<\/p>\n

I realised recently however, that my blog is my growlery. It\u2019s where I go when I feel exasperated, when I have the irrits. I\u2019ve learnt to turn at least some of that annoyance into writing.<\/p>\n

I write some blog posts when I am ticked off, when I want to \u2018get something off my chest\u2019 to summon up a cliche. A growlery post pretty well always results from something which has set me off in a tiny academic pique. It\u2019s usually something I\u2019ve just heard or read. The recent post I wrote on bibliographies and reference lists\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0was written in the growlery. As was the one on methodology and methods<\/a>. And the one on Profzilla<\/a>. Actually, when I think about it, there\u2019s quite a lot of posts that begin in the sanctum of the scholarly growlery.<\/p>\n

Of course, there are some things that are growlery material that I don\u2019t blog about. One of those is when the target of my curmudgeonly prose would be too obvious and recognisable. I do try to avoid naming and shaming and ritual public humiliation. Blog ethics are much the same as any other kind of writing ethics \u2013 no slander, no unnecessary and obvious finger-pointing.<\/p>\n

But the blog as growlery can be a pretty productive place. The growlery doesn\u2019t have to be somewhere that you just go to stew or feel annoyed. You might start off feeling prickly and waspish, tetchy and touchy, disagreeable and surly. But then there is the possibility of turning that peeve into something more constructive, humorous, an answering back or the posing of a tricky question\u2026 Having a growlery blog makes this possible. Writing a post provides a route through the grouchiness. A retreat to privately rant just morphs into a writing retreat.<\/p>\n

Publishing the growlery post is the equivalent of closing the door on that dimly lit, book lined, leather furniture filled room. You\u2019ve had your disgruntled moment. And, at least on some occasions you\u2019ve managed, via blogging, to turn the ill temper to good use.<\/p>\n

So\u2026 Not yet a regular blogger and more than a bit churlish about an event, a policy, \u00a0a taken for granted assumption, the latest trend in scholarship? In that case, get thee to the growlery and let the steam emanating from your ears slowly consolidate into a blog post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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