Subject: Re: JDS, Modernism (was Eric's sexuality)
From: WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Date: Fri Feb 28 1997 - 15:05:13 GMT
Matt, I think jds is more than marginally postmodern--his later longer
stories blur genre distinctions and use a "pastiche" of story
characterization and time fragementation that is as brilliant an example
of postmodernism...by the same token, I argue that hypertext exists
without computers...will
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Matt Kozusko wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Feb 1997 gauthier@SLU.EDU wrote:
>
> [in reply to an earlier comment made by someone else]
>
> > The early Salinger I would classify as modernist. It might help to think
> > of modernisms, however, rather than a monolithic modernism. You aren't
> > contending that he is post-modern are you? If so, how?
>
> There's room for such a contention. The post "Zooey" stories abound with
> meta-moments that stretch the boundaries of any modernist paradigm.
> Certainly any postmodern moments in Salinger are only minor departures
> from modernism, but they are departures indeed--they make that crucial
> leap. I suppose we'll immediately run into trouble agreeing on the where
> boudnary between mod and postmod is--the boundary over which the leap is
> made--but that there is a boundary of some sort doesn't seem to pose a
> problem.
>
> I want to equate the boundary loosely with the "boundary"
> between structuralim and poststructuralism and suggest that there is a
> moment at which the "structurality" of modernism had to begin to be
> thought (analagous to Derrida's "event" in "Structure Sign and Play").
> JDS's later narratives work around that moment, with the mass-confusion
> of boundaries between writer/narrator, narrator/character, and
> character/character. Buddy standing in for Seymour but also
> representing/speaking for Seymour ("Hapworth," journal entries, letters),
> Buddy standing in for Salinger himself, Salinger deriving Seymour largely
> from his own childhood, etc. (there is much more here). An epistomological
> headache always equals postmodernism!
>
> Matt
>
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