Re: jds&postmodernism
Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Thu, 27 Aug 1998 14:05:36 -0400
Kevin Burns wrote:
> lisble (readerly)/scriptible (writerly)
> Things break down here. I need to look at this more. Certainly his
> stories would fall under readerly texts, to me anyway. Maybe Catcher
> could be argued as falling under *writerly*. But this and eveything else
> makes good classroom argument.
In what sense do you see _Catcher_ as potentially a writerly text? How
_Catcher_ more than "Hapworth" or _S:AI_ or _Raise High_? _Catcher_
frustrates the simpler models of narrative by refusing a tidy
conclusion, and perhaps in a few other areas, as well, but even with
that sort of playfulness, it still tends in the end toward the basic
"life is a journey" metaphor.
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Matt Kozusko mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu