Subject: Re: section men
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sat Oct 06 2001 - 12:39:03 GMT
I don't know...I think, to be honest, there are still plenty of section
men in the academe. They're feminist and marxist and post structuralist
and postcolonialist critics that don't look at all like Lane anymore,
but they still manage to "positively ruin" works of fiction for one
reason or another, usually for reasons tangential to the motives driving
the creation of the work of fiction to begin with...
The only parallel I can think of outside the academe is book critics
writing for newspapers and magazines...but that just may be my failure
of the imagination. :)
Jim
Will Hochman wrote:
>
> After rereading "Franny," I've come to think that academe doesn't
> have section men like Lane so much as people like me who are caught
> up in scholarly stuff but well intended. Ok, ok, maybe I'm wrong, but
> just for fun, who are our culture's section men these days? .com
> folks? politicians? talk show hosts?
>
> If we transport the idea of section men from academe, where does it next go?
>
> will
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