Subject: Re: Hapworth Revisited
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 31 2000 - 03:49:28 GMT
I don't at all mind being a lone Hapworth defender. I must admit
that I went to a summer camp not at all unlike Hapworth so to begin
with, it's an easy setting for me to imagine as a reader. I've
posted enough on the story not to repeat it here except to say that I
think this story for me mixes youth, wisdom, faith and art in some
wild but wonderful ways...As I am in SAI, I am deeply into close
reading Hapworth sentences packed with some mighty fine ways of
seeing. I can toss out a parallel in the way Blake inverts youth to
make us see that the wisdom of innocence extends beyond that of
experience and age...though I admit Salinger does sound foolish in
places, I think he has enough cache for me to go along with it. So
did William Shawn. As for the criticism...it is a lot easier to put
Hapworth down than to configure it in ways that further Salinger's
work but I think the latter is more fun, Will
-- Will Hochman Assistant Professor of English & Composition Co-Coordinator Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024- * Unsubscribing? Mail majordomo@roughdraft.org with the message * UNSUBSCRIBE BANANAFISH
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