John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c. 1961 | Literary Hub

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This is a great read. Thanks.
 Ken Kesey

On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 5:13 PM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Yes, quite interesting. Especially because this man, Williams, wrote a
> (anti-Emersonian) Western novel himself around that time that's also
> interesting as fuck (to quote a man who's in the know about what happens in
> Syria and thereabouts as if he'd been there himself and could write an
> Eastern, ah, article about it). And we had already Elmore Leonard with some
> good novels and Oakley Hall with one that Mr. Pynchon read as we know.
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> Am Do., 5. Dez. 2019 um 12:44 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>:
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> > This is the novelist who wrote Stoner and other works. This is from 1961.
> > This starts with fine words on that Pynchonian--American--theme of New
> > England religiosity,
> > Calvinism, so to label it and attendant ideas.
> >
> > It moves to seeing that Good-Evil calvinism in western fiction. Sometimes
> > overcome with
> > Grace, the Emerson infusion. (see Emerson allusions early in ATD).
> >
> > Interesting as fuck. (that's a high lit-crit term) To me.
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> > From: Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> > Date: Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 5:57 AM
> > Subject: John Williams Considers the Literary Western (or Lack Thereof) c.
> > 1961 | Literary Hub
> > To: Me at G <mark.kohut at gmail.com>
> >
> >
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> >
> > https://lithub.com/john-williams-considers-the-literary-western-or-lack-thereof-c-1961/
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