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<DIV>New Criticism is also appropriate because Wolfe, while primarily inspired by Borges, is also inspired by the Catholic English writing in the 1930's to the 1960's--Tolkien, Eliot, Pound, Tate, etc.-- Modernist-Traditionalist writers, a tradition in which I think Wolfe has a prominent place. The New Criticism was supposed to encourage and analyze this type of writing. "Meaning is reconstruction rather than deconstruction" is actually a beautiful little summary of why this is so. Remember that modernism is not postmodernism (although they are in close relation), and Wolfe is definitely a <I>modernist</I> writer.
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<DIV>I agree- new criticism (and historical criticism for valid context most of the time) are the most sound and applicable techniques.<BR><BR>I feel like the new critical approach would get the most out of Wolfe- meaning is reconstruction rather than deconstruction. For example, Reading e e cummings "anyone lived in a pretty how town" through that lens makes perfect sense, though words are used outside their normal parts of speech- meaning is reinforced rather than lost. Much of post modern thought is intentionally losing one self in a haze, getting trapped in the Cartesian circle with no egress in the absence of absolute parameters of signification. <BR>Sent from my iPhone</DIV>
<DIV><BR>On Apr 5, 2013, at 8:07 AM, DAVID STOCKHOFF <<A href="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dstockhoff@verizon.net">dstockhoff@verizon.net</A>> wrote:<BR><SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: rgb(255,255,255); FONT-FAMILY: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; FONT-SIZE: 10pt">They have their own abstract methods, and while they try to make those methods concrete, they also make them inflexible and blind. </SPAN></DIV>
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