The Feminization of American Culture: Ann Douglas: 9780374525583: Amazon.com: Books

[Prashant Kumar]

I'd find the fault with normative judgement itself.

As to Faulkner, I'd tick a box saying "Prose Stylist" as well: there are
some transcendentally beautiful passages throughout. Not Nabokovian
beautiful, but visceral. The scene where Jewel is attacked by a horse,
narrated by Darl in As I Lay Dying comes to mind. Maybe a subset of POV,
dunno.

P.

On 2 October 2012 13:23, Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> wrote:

> So you're saying that because some authors aren't good at condensing their
> ideas into shorter forms, they're not as good as those who are able to do
> so? Not sure I agree with that, though it's an interesting idea. Is a two
> hour Coltrane solo less telling than a two minute Miles solo? How to judge?
> Is a sketch by Leonardo more important than the Sistine Chapel? Apples and
> oranges.
>
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> On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 6:35 PM, alice wellintown <
> alicewellintown at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I like the suggestion that a study of American authors would begin, or
>> might begin, with the exemplary stories, short stories, or tales of
>> great writers and not focus on novels these authors wrote. If this
>> were done, of course, there would be little or nothing of Pynchon
>> worthy of study. Though Entropy has been anthologized, though The
>> Secret Integration is more an apprentice work than the juvenile
>> hackings P released as Slow Learner, even these two stories, though
>> often studied,  are not worth study, not if we plan to study
>> excellence. We might call CL49 a long short story; sometimes the term
>> novella is used by German, Italian, French ctitics to describe works
>> the length of CL49, Bartleby, The Open Boat, Gatsby...In any event,
>> and I won't argue the definition by length, though I wouldn't mind
>> looking into Poe's claims about tales and their length, we might take
>> some pleasure from these discussions were we to focus on short tales
>> and, maybe a good way to proceed is to look into the elements, see how
>> they work, in other words, do some analysis of tales written by
>> Americans that are said to be great. There is nothing wrong with the
>> trite opinions offered, but that they are trite: Faulkner is the
>> Early 20th Century master and so on is such crap anyone can read at
>> Wikipedia. Someone with balls might argue that Faulkner is greater
>> only if we put emphasis on what he does better than most, mainly point
>> of view. If we are searching for a better ironist, we need look no
>> further than O. Henry. So on...of course, no one said ladies first,
>> but I couldn't resist, so...
>>
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