Borges, Woolf

[Alex Colter]

Reading Orlando and The Waves was practically as formative for me as
reading Gravity's Rainbow...

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Phillip Greenlief <pgsaxo at pacbell.net>wrote:

> *From:* alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>**
> *Subject:* Re: Borges, Woolf
>
> VW is every bit as great as TRP. I do not expect readers here to
> appreciate her, as they might appreciate JJ, but how many here would
> put elizabeth bishop and eliot or yeats or pound on the same list?  in
> part, of course, it is a male bias that is deep in the assessment of
> literature generally; the male dominated academy has, and the
> P-industry is an extension of this continued hegenomy, a moby-dick;
> this bias in the american novel is greater of course, as fielder and
> others have suggested, the american novel is a male novel, but even in
> england, where george eliot, the brontes, austin, as woolf outlines
> the great tradition of sisters of shakespeare, the dicks make the
> greats in their own image.
>
>
> PG:
>
> as beckett would say:
>
> not i.
>
>
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