Re: Salinger
Pasha Paterson (gpaterso@richmond.edu)
Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:35:13 -0500
Even asides are fair game.
If you're solely concerned with _Catcher_'s influence on later authors,
maybe a passing mention of it might suffice, but for anything deeper, I
would at least recommend a reread just to make sure that the students
have read the book in terms of something more meaningful than an 8th
grade book report; maybe not studying the book intensively, but at least
treating it as a work of literature and not grouping it with so-called
"young-adult novels" as some [bad] classes seem to treat it.
At 12:46 11/11/98 +0000, helena kim wrote:
>as an aside, catcher defintely was one of the most influential books of
>the period, and should be referenced. but would it be safe for the
>professor
>to assume that everyone studying english in college has read it, and
>instead of *teaching* it, just comment on how it influenced what came
>afterwards? i'm wondering what our resident english academics think of
>this.
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