R.W.B. Lewis Obituary mentions Salinger

Subject: R.W.B. Lewis Obituary mentions Salinger
From: Will Hochman (hochman@southernct.edu)
Date: Mon Jun 17 2002 - 10:52:03 EDT

 From yesterday's NYTimes (page B18) "Professor Lewis traced how
writers and intellectuals 'rejoiced in and deplored' this 'ideal of
new born innocence,' a cultural theme that he said had persisted in
novels like Ralph Ellison's 'Invisible Man,' J.D. Salinger's 'Catcher
in the Rye' and Saul Bellow's 'Adventures of Augie March.'"

Lewis asserted that the literary canon is determined by writers
themselves. I don't agree...and assert that readers also create
literature.

will 

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	Will Hochman

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