Subject: Re: "Bananafish"
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Tue Apr 22 1997 - 11:24:41 GMT
matt, could be your class was not a disaster...maybe the story will
fire like an "automatic" ortegies after your precious freshmen can't
get the story out of their heads! will
On Mon, 21 Apr 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
>
> Well, I just tried teaching "Bananafish" to twelve UGA freshmen, and it
> was a terrible disaster. I've just discovered that I cannot read
> "Bananafish" independently of everything else I know about Salinger. This
> is really rather fascinating. I feel like I have no way of approximating
> what it was like for readers of the Jan. '48 NYer to read this story. I
> got some extraordinary (that's a nice, neutral word) reactions from my
> students. I found I was unable to lead any sort of discussion--I could
> not separate myself from the grand context of the whole Salinger canon.
>
> No real point here, just catharsis. I suspect I'll follow this up after
> tomorrow's class period. Incidentally, would anybody be interested in
> joining us for an on-line class discussion?
>
> Matt
>
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