File under: Say it ain't so

[Joel S. Berson]

At 10/23/2010 04:01 PM, Jonathan Lighter wrote:
>I believe what she's trying to say in that passage is not that JA can't
>write, just that she's discovered a *brand-new and even more fascinating
>Jane Austen*.  (There was a time in hjistory you weren't supposed to have to
>*guess* at what literary scholars were "trying" to say.)

I'm trying to restore that time in history for Hawthorne -- for one tale.  :-)

>Surely she doesn't think that, exactly.  But by trying to jazz up the
>academic style with the far more marketable pop-media style "(_Life is
>Beautiful_ puts a whole new face on the Holocaust! Buy tickets now!"), she
>makes a serious rhetorical misstep.

I wonder when Sutherland's book and movie will hit the shelves and theatres.

But not to be too sardonic, it will be fascinating to see the
manuscripts on-lone.

Joel

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