Subject: RE: Banned Books
From: George Ford (bf20455@binghamton.edu)
Date: Wed Mar 12 1997 - 23:14:07 GMT
>In many of the posts I have made here, and, on various of other lists that
>are in similiar topic nature, many have critized "modernistic" literature
>-as- tripe. Okay, given, that is their opinion, while I have argued that
>most of what is considered "classical" literature, is in my opinion,
>"tripe". This argument, could be argued back and forth, for aeons.
>
What I was trying to say was not necessarily concerned with "modernist"
literature as a genre or phase of literature, as a type, but instead was
concerned with curretn literature, contemporary working authors, whom either
you or Malcom in one of your posts seemed to downplay the
quality/importance/etc. of. My post was a defense of the best of our
current _good_ purveyors of fiction, and an attempt to distinguish them from
the Danielle Steeles out there, for all would agree that she may be popular,
but she ain't even in the same business as Cormac McCarthy. There's writing
and there's hacking, as all here would agree.
I wouldn't, personally, be so quick to "write off" 'classical' literature.
I've always found it a bit of a shame when fellow students of mine (in
college and back in high school)were immediately prejudiced against a book
simply because they were told to read it by a teacher/professor. I hav
ediscovered many (not all, of course) of my favorite books/authors from
required reading in various classes, and that's how it should be, provided
one also absorbs literature from other sources as well. The point is to be
open.
(Did you ever read Updike's
>"A&P"?),
I just started "In the Beauty o fthe Lilies" and that's all of his I've
read. I included him in my post because so far (about 50 pages) I'm
impressed enough to toss him in with my other favorites.
>In all of his works that I have read, the common theme seems to be that he
>is fighting against the norm. Seeking out and creating characters that
>would be theoretically, be trouble makers (such as in "Raise high the
>roofbeams", the societies view of Seymour, from which buddy heard)
>
Who doesn't love a good troublemaker?
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