Borges, Woolf

[Keith Davis]

I have yet to read Ms. Woolf, but after today's discussion, I'm looking
forward to it.

Borges has glowing praise for Joyce and Ullyses, but didn't care much for
Finnegan's Wake.

On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 6:11 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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