Subject: Re: JDS, Modernism (was Eric's sexuality)
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@virtual.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sat Mar 01 1997 - 11:39:18 GMT
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
> Matt, I think jds is more than marginally postmodern--his later longer
> stories blur genre distinctions and use a "pastiche" of story
> characterization and time fragementation that is as brilliant an example
> of postmodernism...by the same token, I argue that hypertext exists
> without computers...will
I'm not sure I follow you on that last move, but the "blurring" of
distinctions is precisely what I have in mind, as well. Time
fragmentation? Is that an essential characteristic of Saligner's fiction,
or is it incidental? A function of his apparantly arbitrary shift in
focus from story to story? A Glass story, a couple of non-Glass stories,
an early Glass story, a late one, a *really* early one, etc. I guess it
comes down to whether we look at his stories as written in a preconceived
order or of some sortm aand to what extent. I s there some particular
reason that "Raise High" comes after "Zooey," and is that reason a player
in some larger scheme that also resulted in "Hapworth" being published
last? I don't think so, although I don't doubt that certain stories might
appear in a certain order for whatever reason. I guess what I'm driving
at is that for the chronological abberance to qualify as truly postmodern,
would't it have to be intentional in some larger sense? Doesn't the
postmodern always know it's postmodern?
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