Wood's "common reader"

[Keith Davis]

I'm checking this guy out. Thanks. Where to start?

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:26 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> *I like postmodernism only when it intends to be serious in its reach.*
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>> *http://www.goldenhandcuffsreview.com/gh14content/Heppner.pdf*
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> What constitutes a Joseph McElroy novel? Let’s start by throwing out the
> stupid and obvious. It’s not length because McElroy can be succinct and
> frequently is. It’s not the supposed thorny and compacted nature of the
> sentences because McElroy can be transparent when he wants to be. (From Women
> and Men, page 516: “Chick never had as much homework as Gordon.They did
> not discuss school. Chick got strapped by his mother once in a while and
> his mother gave him orange juice for supper instead of milk.”) It’s not
> whatever he might have in common with some of his contemporaries, the
> Pynchons and Gaddises, because quite honestly I don’t see it. I see Proust,
> I see James, but not Coover or Barth. Don’t let the pub dates fool you: Joseph
> McElroy is **not a postmodernist.The seriousness of his mission and his
> concern with inner landscapes—memory, suppressed trauma—locate him closer
> to the modernist sensibility of Picasso and Schoenberg than the postmodern,
> street-beat vibe of Warhol and rock and roll.
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