Subject: Re: "Bananafish"
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 22 1997 - 11:42:11 GMT
matt, i agree--their reading of bananafish is more likely about
themselves! i think the pschobabble of G&B was stylish and is not just
cheap analysis based on theories that are outdated...it takes a real
critic to read love and love reading! will
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 1997 oconnort@nyu.edu wrote:
>
> > I'm curious: to whom would you award the #1 useless slot in Salinger
> > scholarship?
> >
>
> Why, Freddy Gwynn, of course! Blotner's partner in puerility. The two of
> them published a pamphlet of psychocriticism on Salinger in the late 50's
> called "The Fiction of J.D. Salinger." Actualy, they seem to be
> well-established, respectable academics, especially Blotner, who is a
> Faulkner scholar (he's done something with William Carlos Williams, too, I
> think). Hugh Kenner invited him over here, which is a good indication of
> both age and importance.
>
> Their approach to Salinger, though, seems way off to me. For instance,
> they read Seymour as sexually troubled--thus the pedophelia, the
> fascination with trees, the gun, and the connection to Rilke, who they say
> also liked little girls. Gwynn and Blotner are smug, disdainful,
> bored--if one can acually yawn complacently in academic prose, I'm sure
> they do it--and "themeselves implicitly bursting with mental health."
> I spoke before I thought, but "useless" is at least partially accurate.
>
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