Re: The Mantra of Michael
WILL HOCHMAN (hochman@uscolo.edu)
Sat, 21 Nov 1998 10:22:39 -0700 (MST)
Not only is pasha right, but if Michael really wants to do in lit crit,
why isn't he citing SIA? I think the folks that want to make lit into
individual reader response and nothing more are just as silly as lit crits
who think their readings are "authoritative." One of the reasons I love
this list is that it collects reading insights in ways that improve my own
sensibilities...that last phrase is key I think...how we communicate our
reading insights and energy is really the issue...thanks Pasha, will
On Sat, 21 Nov 1998, Pasha Paterson wrote:
> At 18:11 11/20/98 -0800, anonymous wrote:
> >If you really, want to learn from salinger reread zooey. Franny and
> >Zooey both comment on how everyone is always intellectualizing great
> >writers, and how horrible it is. Franny disscusses how section men uin
> >and destroy authors fo her in Franny. That is an obvious and relevant
> >meaning.
>
>
> ARGGH... It does not follow from this that all analysts of literature
> are automatically section men. Read the thread in the October archive
> on "How to avoid phoniness"; we have addressed (from several different
> viewpoints) the difference between a "good" teacher of literature and
> what Franny would call a section man. I think it would relate to
> this. I'm not going to reproduce that whole thread here. That's
> what the archive is for.
>
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