Re: a sixth angle


Subject: Re: a sixth angle
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 21 2002 - 12:17:57 EDT


I don't know...on the part of these particular authors, that's really a bit naive of them to think there's nothing to be gained from their
stories beyond the sheer pleasure of reading. This point is especially true of Salinger who, despite his claims about his own fiction,
seemed to get a great deal of meaning out of his own reading. It's reflected in his stories all over the place.

It's also hard to read Twain's Huck Finn and not get something out of Huck's crisis of conscience.

None of this has to do with specific symbolism, though, just with reading the stories in general -- with narrative, character development,
etc.

Jim

Patrick Wong wrote:

> --- Scottie Bowman <rbowman@indigo.ie> wrote:
> >
> > '... with Salinger, you can't call anything
> > insignificant ...'
> >
> > Cec is absolutely on the button. With Salinger,
> >
> > EVERYTHING is insignificant.
>
> "If there is an amateur reader still left in the
> world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I
> ask him or her, with untellable affection and
> gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four
> ways with my wife and children."
>
> Raise High
> The Roof Beam,
> Carpenters
> and
> Seymour
> An Introduction
>
> This reminds me of Mark Twain's introduction to The
> Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, in which he threatens
> physical violence against anyone who tries to make a
> cohesive whole out of the story. Evidently, even
> though some authors and / or poets enjoy the "modern"
> style of interpreting things however they want and
> creating whatever symbolisms and parallels that they
> feel like, there still exist a few who believe that
> their works have no such hidden meanings that one must
> extrapolate out of thin air. Unfortunately, my High
> School English instructors continuously scoff at me
> for trying to inform them of this view that is so
> explicitly stated by the authors of the novels we are
> writing essays on.
>
> =====
> "That which is truly wisdom will seem like foolishness to a fool, and that which is truly foolishness will seem like wisdom to a fool."
> - Proverbs
>
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