Re: Your starter for...
blah b b blah (jrovira@juno.com)
Sat, 13 Feb 1999 20:14:20 -0500 (EST)
eh, I think she's seeing Holden in the light of the wrong religion.
Honestly, I see Catcher as being a fairly non-religious adaptation of the
theme that seems to permeate most of Salinger's work.
I think she's misreading Biblical catchphrases like "fool for Christ" by
actually importing themes found in Catcher into Biblical frames of
thought. I'm not saying that ideas expressed in Catcher are necessarily
antithetical to Biblical ideas, but that at the point where the two seem
to be connected in your brief description of the article Biblical ideas
seem to be distended to fit Catcher.
Jim
On Thu, 11 Feb 1999 15:38:23 -0600 JOSH FELDMETH
<joshfeldmeth@mail.utexas.edu> writes:
>Hey Team:
>
>I've been enjoying a little something about our boy JD by a Dr. Mrs.
>Liz
>Kurian. Anyone know of it? It's got this long-a#% title that
>includes
>$.50 words like "dilemma" and "existential" and "religious response."
>
>Among some nice ideas out religion in Salinger's oeuvre, she calls
>Holden a "fool for Christ," his compulsion to flee Percy (a vulgar,
>adult world) and to perserve youth's innocence (catching the
>youngsters
>in the rye). And since innocence and the like are tenets of the
>Gospel
>message, our somewhat neurotic Holden is then its messanger.
>
>I'll concede points on my paraphrase, but it still seems a strech.
>What
>do you think? Add what do you think: can you Ph.D. types recommend
>solid critical responses to religion and JDS?
>
>Keeping on, keeping on,
>Josh
>
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