Locator: 45066WTI.
*********************
The Book Page
Today's book to start:
- The World Broke in Two: Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, D. H. Lawrence, E. M. Forster, and the Year That Changed Literature, Bill Goldstein, c. 2017, 823GOL.
- In Search of Mary Shelley: The Girl Who Wrote Frankenstein, Fiona Sampson, c. 2018. It's irritating to me to call an 18-year-old woman a "girl," especially one who wrote in the early 1800s.
- Notes here.
From the introduction:
- Willa Cather
- her 1936 book of essays, Not Under Forty
- she made the melancholy remark at the beginning of the book: "The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts."
- Cather was thinking of:
- Ulysses, February, 1922
- The Waste Land, October, 1922
All at once these two books seemed to herald a new modernist era in which the form of story telling (that) she (Cather) prized, and had excelled at, was no longer of signal importance.
Comments: This is incredibly important and incredibly interesting for me. Years ago I put together my "history" of literature which I use to discuss literature with the grandchildren. In my "diary" it is Chapter 24 and runs to 43 pages. I occasionally add to it but most additions are now elsewhere. I wanted the "chapter" to show what my thoughts were when I first wrote it back in 2006 or thereabouts.
If the author chooses 1922 as the year the world (literature) broke, then the author needs to pick the year Romanticism began: 1749, with Rosseau’s essay. That period ended with the death of Goethe. But I digress.
*************************
101 Days Of Summer -- Day 30
Going biking.
Wow, these days are gorgeous.
I'm going biking. I'll bike five miles to the library.
*************************
American Grammar
The never-ending argument: It's her or it's she?
Perhaps, the best response, the one I like best:
For another controversy, see who vs whom. Link here, usage.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.