jds&postmodernism

WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 06:40:01 -0600 (MDT)

I'm interested in the way postmodernism (whatever that really means beyond
fragmentation and synthethis) creates new reading opportunities in
salinger's fiction.  I think that "Hapworth" gets a better context these
days than when it was published, but what about other salinger work and
postmodernism?  Is mr. salinger resistent to lit theory or are amateur
readers assisted with new approaches to lit? will