A Review of GR in Open Salon

[Prashant Kumar]

>> I would give him an A and tell him to consider switching to the math
department.

Uncharitable, no? Stink of the Philistine fo' sure, but please don't tar us
all.

http://dabacon.org/pontiff/?p=1329

On 25 August 2012 04:15, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:

> I gave up on the review; I read about half of it, I think, after the
> Proust ref. I decided that the reviewer is, for the most part, correct
> in his descriptions of GR, though he seems hung up on the po-mo term,
> and though I get what he means, he is wrong to call GR a po-mo
> literature; the reviewer should not read Proust or Wallace or Joyce
> (F-Wake or Ulysses), or lotz of other big fat loose and baggy books,
> the tradition of the Italian Picaro, that we might even trace to the
> Odyssey, but also to the pilrimage, be it the works of Dante, Bun-yuns
> progress, (he will not dig the Onion--a satirical newspaper, or
> appreciate the one onion Vinyet in the brothers Karamazov either) the
> perigrinations across lands and nations will not appeal to him, books
> that fielding or sterne or cervantez playfully push out of their oree
> fist ez scatalogically slipshodically, no, not romances generally,or
> the novels that jane has her characters defend ironically and
> githically in northanger abbey,  but should stck with short stories.
> Poe, who wrote a fine defense and definition of the tale, or short
> narrative, would rip Pynchon and Joyce a new black box, though his
> narrative of pym is a pin in the pynchon flam flan and trim. if one of
> my students submitted this review as an essay, a reader response
> essay,not an anlysis,  though the review, or the first half of it,
> does include some minor points of analysis, demonstrating some
> knowledge of the tradition and conventions, I would give him an A and
> tell him to consider switching to the math department.
>
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