Re: NYU Diss Phd

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Yes it was, and the sponsor, Mitchell Leaska was my teacher.  When I
produced "Slight Rebellion" in his point of view class (during a lecture
on why Catcher was First Person) my academic carrer with Professor Leaska
was terminated.  I was shattered but picked up pieces and other Eng Ed
folks helped me put my humpty dumpty phd back together again...will

On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Matt Kozusko wrote:

> WILL HOCHMAN wrote:
>  
> > There's actually an NYU dissertation on why catcher could only be written
> > in first person...I don't accept the validity of this dissertation because
> > the scholar had no knowledge of earlier "caulfield" stories written inthe
> > third person.   
> 
> Very curious.  I wonder how a PhD--especially at NYU--could manage to
> overlook that early story, let alone be unaware of its existence.  By
> any chance, was it an English ed. student?  
> 
>  
> -- 
> Matt Kozusko    mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu
> 

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