Atdtda22: [42.1i] Modern poetry, 607

[Heikki Raudaskoski]

Interesting thread.

I just want to make the rather obvious point that to have
modernity/modernism and high and popular culture with all 
their genres as *themes* in AtD is quite different from the 
question of the novel's own form, its genre. A novel which 
in a Bakhtinian way seems to assimilate the high and low 
genres Monte mentions + many more - how does it work? 
Compared to, e.g., some fictional works of the period in 
which AtD "places" itself. This is, of course, a really 
demanding question to which ATDTDA contributors have no 
doubt provided tentative answers already; I only recently 
started my 2nd read and will try to start finding answers 
of my own in the months to come. 


Heikki

P.S. On a more personal note. I've long promised to take my 
daughter somewhere in Europe when she is 15. That is, next 
summer - more specifically, around mid-July. Now, she'd like 
to revisit Paris where she spent a week with her mother in May. 
Whereas I'd love to introduce London to her. So, Britons and 
the rest: how to sell her the idea of a week in London instead 
of one more in Paris? She’s into things Japanese at the moment; 
among myriad of other things, London abounds with them too, 
doesn’t it?