TRTR, Misc.

[Mark Kohut]

like you I have long been fascinated with the movement of the canonical.....

 

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From: Albert Rolls <alprolls at earthlink.net>
To: Pynchon-L <pynchon-l at waste.org>
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It took about a century for Shakespeare to begin becoming SHAKESPEARE. Jonson and Beaumont and Fletcher were prefered, and the plays of the latter two are now not read much outside the academy. I think it's premature to discuss canonization for anyone so newly dead. Writers will go out of fashion for a variety of reasons in the generations immediately following their period of activity; they return, sometimes long after they have died. I am personally fascinated with Charlotte Lennox, whom Samuel Johnson praised back when she was writing. Her work remained out of print until the 1980s or early 1990s; I'm glad it's back. 


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>From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>Sent: Aug 17, 2011 2:30 PM
>To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
>Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: TRTR, Misc.
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>something tells me much of DFW will land similar decades hence
>(besides IJ that is)
>
>rich
>
>On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Here's the video of William Gaddis 1986 interview with Malcolm Bradbury (I posted the audio back in the day) : http://t.co/c49jcUc
>>
>> And, if interested, NY Mag had a piece on DFW in July which had this snark (from someone)
>>
>> ..The Recognitions,which is falling out of the canon faster than John Dos Passos..............
>>