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

[Ian Livingston]

For once, I agree with the maligner.

On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 3:15 PM, <malignd at aol.com> wrote:

> It's Faulkner for the 20th century; for the first half, in a rout.
>  Hemingway wrote great stories (so did Faulkner) but only one great novel,
> and that was his first.  Try to read Across the River and Through the Trees
> without laughing.  Gatsby is a marvel, but it's one small book.  Kerouac?
>  Please ....
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Heikki Raudaskoski <hraudask at sun3.oulu.fi>
> To: Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Cc: jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>; pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org
> >
> Sent: Fri, Sep 28, 2012 6:45 am
> Subject: Re: The Feminization of American Culture: Ann Douglas:
> 9780374525583: Amazon.com: Books
>
>
>
> May you live long, Mark!
>
> As to me and the 1st half of the 20th century, I lost my heart in
> Yoknapatawpha County.
>
>
> Heikki
>
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Markekohut wrote:
>
> > I agree ......I might have  said that but Ann seems,consistent to me w her two
> choices. In her judgme nts, she gives a lot of weight to a
> > sustained stylistic breakthrough as part of their greatness. In both cases,
> they sorta asserted a new but subtle plain style against the prevailing
> > Overly refined style of the times. She sez.
> >
> > I don't think Kerouac is best then either if it isn't Pynchon and I'd vote for
> him.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Sep 28, 2012, at 5:50 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hemingway himself said F. Scott F. was the greatest and I tend to agree.
> > > (and of course I hope you're not dying anytime soon.)
> > >
> > > 2012/9/28 Markekohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>:
> > >> Speaking of Kerouac, as some have been---winking at you, Alice---this
> woman,
> > >> Ann Douglas, whose good book here I recommend, was supposed to have her
> > >> sorta chronological sequel out
> > >> By  2007 ( or earlier) has still not published it but in it she will
> > >> supposedly argue that Jack K. Is the best American writer of the second
> half
> > >> of the 20th Century as Ole Hem was of the first.
> > >>
> > >> It is a book I want to read so I hope she is writing it faster than I am
> > >> dying.
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my iPad
> > >>
> > >> Begin forwarded message:
> > >>
> > >> From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > >> Date: September 27, 2012, 6:31:44 PM EDT
> > >> To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> > >> Subject: The Feminization of American Culture: Ann Douglas: 9780374525583:
> > >> Amazon.com: Books
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> http://www.amazon.com/The-Feminization-American-Culture-Douglas/dp/0374525587/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348785053&sr=8-1&keywords=ann+douglas
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Sent from my iPad
> >
>
>


-- 
"Less than any man have I  excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://waste.org/pipermail/pynchon-l/attachments/20120930/bf78106d/attachment.html>