deacongirl Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Modernized opening line of MD (and other classics). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TeaTotaler Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I haven't read all the replies yet but I wanted to mention that I felt a whole lot better when I heard SWB once say that she did not finish it either. :001_smile: She might have read it since then - this was a long time ago. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perry Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I haven't read all the replies yet but I wanted to mention that I felt a whole lot better when I heard SWB once say that she did not finish it either. :001_smile: She might have read it since then - this was a long time ago. SWB “If she’s not careful, Susan Wise Bauer will wind up a guru on PBS. … The author’s lists of choices for “great books” are gutsy. Anyone can debate such lists; provocation is part of the fun of drawing them up, and Bauer is no slouch at it. For good reason, Mein Kampf makes the autobiography list, but she says she cannot finish Moby Dick and wants none of Joyce’s Ulysses, called “too brutal to read.” … Bauer provides good synopses for her selections and runs them right up to the present (inlcuding such novels as A. S. Byatt’s Possession). She also adds short but spicy “histories” of her five genres. The history of the novel, she writes, is one grand circle, from the self-reflexivity of Cervantes to the metafiction of today. … For Bauer, history is both a literary pleasure and requirement for good citizenship. … Bauer is a real rebel; she does not mistake the last century of cranky half-truths from Frankfurt garrets and Sorbonne cafes for 2,500 years of philosophical aesthetics. All her genres include not only Dead White Males but also authors far beyond that usual cast of suspects. In contrast to both extremes of the culture wars, she proves you can speak two truths at once. … In the best sense, Bauer is a neoclassicist.”–America Magazine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hollyandab Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 Ugh...so glad someone else had a hard time getting through that book. I think my love for literature went down with Capt. Ahab! :tongue_smilie: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrissySC Posted June 16, 2011 Share Posted June 16, 2011 I feel awesome knowing that about SWB. LOl TY Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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