distressing news

[Boris Dagaev]

<a pretentious home-grown naive costume drama of the Eternal Struggle
Between Good and Evil>

You might give it another read... What you are describing is closer to Buffy :-)

On 8/31/06, Evgeny Steiner <es77 at nyu.edu> wrote:
> It seems that from the very beginning of this animated discussion
> Master and Margarita is assigned a status of a Holy Cow, whereas
> perhaps it is at best a middlebrow satire on one hand and a
> pretentious home-grown naive costume drama of the Eternal Struggle
> Between Good and Evil on the other...
>
> Evgeny Steiner
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Boris Dagaev <boris.dagaev at GMAIL.COM>
> Date: Thursday, August 31, 2006 9:01 am
> Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] distressing news
>
> > <"making value judgments on what constitutes good vs bad in art" is,
> > in fact, the only thing a literary critic _could_ do>
> >
> > _that_ would be truly distressing news! if it were true :-)
> >
> > On 8/31/06, Genevra Gerhart <ggerhart at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > Jessica wrote:
> > >
> > > But then I have something of an aversion to passing value
> judgements
> > > > on culture, it seems a little snobbish to think that we
> > (academics)> > can judge what constitutes good vs bad in art.  It
> > feels limiting and
> > > > restrictive, just my opinion.....
> > >
> > > I have always thought that "making value judgments on what
> > constitutes good
> > > vs bad in art" is, in fact, the only thing a literary  critic
> > _could_ do.
> > > What the h. else were they put on earth to do?
> > >
> > > Genevra Gerhart
> > >
> > > ggerhart at comcast.net
> > >
> > > www.genevragerhart.com
> > > www.russiancommonknowledge.com
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Slavic & East European Languages and Literature list
> > > [mailto:SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU] On Behalf Of Christopher
> Lemelin
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 9:10 PM
> > > To: SEELANGS at LISTSERV.CUNY.EDU
> > > Subject: Re: [SEELANGS] distressing news
> > >
> > > A quick correction.  Les Miserables was originally written (in
> > > French) by composer Claude-Michel Schoenberg and librettist Alain
> > > Boubil.  The English version was produced by Cameron Mackintosh and
> > > the English lyrics were adapted by Herbert Kretzmer.
> > >
> > > In my humble opinion--and by the way, I agree with others that
> ALW's
> > > early musicals are far superior to his later ones--Les Mis is an
> > > incredible achievement, rivaling a great opera.
> > >
> > > CWL
> > >
> > > ========================
> > > Christopher W. Lemelin
> > > Assistant Professor of Russian
> > > Dickinson College
> > > lemelinc at dickinson.edu
> > >
> > > (On sabbatical 2006-2007)
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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