Subject: Re: The business of subjects (Administrative Trivia)
From: Will Hochman (hochmanw1@southernct.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 09:49:47 EDT
Dear, dear Tim, I think it was in l957 or l958 that critic George
Steiner complained of "the Salinger Industry" because the author's
work had collected so much critical response so quickly...so it's no
surprise that "the industry" is still healthy and producing lots of
words in the age of the Internet. As a reader of most of the
criticism and most of the posts of this list, I'm still a very hungry
little bananafish thanks to JDS and his readers, will
PS: Tim, it sounds like you're home. Your long and beautiful post may
not have been as necessary as you think though. As I recall, there
only one complaining about off topic posts and that person quickly
gave up his complaint and posted his own off topic stuff.
PPS: I think Jim and robbie ARE addressing Salinger issues...getting
beyond religious institutions to spiritual ideas is something I sense
strongly in Salinger's work and their scholarship on this list really
helps us understand how institutions construct ideas differently than
readers of texts. Besides, I'm learning lots of stuff I didn't learn
in school!
-- Will HochmanAssociate Professor of English Southern Connecticut State University 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515 203 392 5024
http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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