Subject: Re: salinger salinger everywhere
From: LR Pearson, Arts 99 (lp9616@bristol.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Feb 02 2000 - 07:48:09 EST
On Tue, 1 Feb 2000 21:43:53 EST Clumsy9irl@aol.com wrote:
> ok..thats my salinger story for today..but it makes me wonder...the gavin
> rossdale quote in teen people had to have the addition of who holden is...i
> know that my school doesnt read catcher anymore...and im wondering if its
> falling out of the high school list....my honors american lit teacher last
> year refused to teach it because parents complained the year before, so its
> banned....so im wondering how many people today get exposed to it..any of you
> other high school students on the list, is it a part of the curriculum?? just
> wondering....but yep..thats all...so ciao!
> ~Meredith
>
I know that Catcher is a common feature of US curricula but it is much
more unusual in Britain. Modern writers (in my education, anyway) are
often neglected, and when they're not, we focus on British rather than
American writers (which makes sense, but is a bummer for me, as most of
my favourite 20th century authors are American). What I think I might
be aiming at is the fact that people tend to find Salinger even without
studying him in high school. In fact, I would have hated to do a nasty
little GCSE dissection of Catcher, it might well have ruined it for me.
Love, Lucy-Ruth
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LR Pearson, Arts 99
lp9616@bristol.ac.uk
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