Vineland criticism

[David Morris]

Puh-leeeze, "the scholars."  GR is a masterpiece.  VL is a mediocrity.
 Don't need no "scholars" to figure that one out.

And if VL can "easily be 'decoded' as an anti-Reagan polemic or a
panorama/panegyric of Leftist activities in America's postwar years,"
I'd say that wasn't a good recommendation for it...

Having taken the time to Group Read it here (VLVL) a number of years
ago, it proove itself to me to be a big let-down.  It teases, but
never delivers.

David Morris

On 8/31/06, robinlandseadel at comcast.net <robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
>  . . . the "scholars", having made personal bailiwicks out of GR and 49 (and being whizzes at looking up weird Jacobean words and historical references to London Newspapers during the Blitz), choose to underestimate "Vineland", which can just as easily be "decoded" as an anti-Reagan polemic or a panorama/panegyric of Leftist activities in America's postwar years. Gotta get that Alliteration in the title ["Oh I see," sez Commando Connie, "it has to be allierative. How about . . . um . . .discharge dumplings?"] if your gonna get published at the post-grad level. Don't wanna piss off the sources of any of those big ticket endowments now, do we?


>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
> > Well, it's newer, but doesn't at least appear to require nearly the effort that M&D did, so ...
> >
> > --- robinlandseadel at comcast.net wrote:
> >
> > >  . . . the point I was making is that there seems to be a general scholarly aversion to Vineland....
> >
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