[bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was Special COllections
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 11 Mar 2012 19:53:59 -0700 (PDT)
I haven't read any Thomas Wolfe, but I did find Maugham interesting reading--
another author who satirized society, though sometimes in a way too dark and
serious for me. I did like his line (I don't remember from which work) Marriage
is only a way to spend the rest of your life paying for something that if
you'd been a little more clever you could have gotten for nothing. grin
Cindy
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> From: Roger Loran Bailey <rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
>To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2012 7:06 PM
>Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Nobel Prize winners in Literature from 1901 was
>Special COllections
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>Indeed, you need to know where you came from to know where you are
>going. For that reason I have studied history and I consider my studies
>of history to have been essential to my political activism. However, we
>are not talking about history. We are talking about fiction. That is
>entertainment. Your preference in entertainment is an incredibly thin
>basis on which to hang feelings of self superiority. Yet there are
>people who do just that.
>
>On 3/11/2012 9:57 PM, Ixchel, Jackie wrote:
>> Hi Anne,
>> I agree with you, you need to know where you've come from in order to
>> determine where you want to go.
>> Jackie
>>
>> On 3/11/12, Ann Parsons<akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> <smiling with twinkle> Ah, the relevancy argument again. Roger, my
>>> friend, you date yourself. Relevancy was the popular cry in the 60s
>>> and 70s. All literature taught in English classes had to be relevant.
>>> The problem is that like those old, crabby English teachers you estue,
>>> relevancy is determined by the reader. I think that Harry Potter is
>>> relevant. I also think that Macbeth and Hamlet are relevant. Granted,
>>> they are relevant for different reasons, but they are, indeed,
>>> relevant. Now, the only reason I consider Thomas Wolfe and Somerset
>>> Maughan relevant is because they typify a certain era in literature. I
>>> personally do not enjoy reading these authors, but I do consider them
>>> relevant when in the context of a literature class. You have to know
>>> where you've come from in order to know where you're going. That's why
>>> history is relevant. Understanding one's culture is related closely to
>>> understanding its literature, but again, relevancy is in the eye of the
>>> reader.
>>>
>>> Ann P.
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