TR & Tanner on Real reality

[alice wellintown]

Richard, the Tanner essay on Hawthorne's BR  is available online.
Tanner's is the kind of reader that we all love to listen to because
he makes such beautiful music. He connects Hawthorne with Gaddis
briefly and others have too. Why Tanner omits Gaddis from this volume,
he belongs between Fitzgerald, Pynchon's father, and Pynchon or where
Tanner puts DeLillo.  In the volume, _The American Mystery_ Tanner
proves himself a poet and a master scholar of America.


On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:15 AM, Richard Ryan <himself at richardryan.com> wrote:
> Excellent!  Tell us more....
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> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 8:00 PM, alice wellintown
> <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>> So, rushing out the door with the wrong book, I read it anyway because
>> I had along train ride and a long stand and wait, and because I
>> enjoyed it twice and three is a charm or something like that. It is
>> Tanner's Ameican Mystery and I direct you to the essay on Hawthorne
>> where he talks of the real. It is abeautiful reading of Blithdale and
>> of a few poems. It fits the TR like a glove.
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