[lbo-talk] From another thread

[Mike Beggs]

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Dennis Claxton
<ddclaxton at earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 04:23 PM 11/25/2009, Chuck Grimes wrote:
>
>> Berube falls into the same problem as WBM in that he argues from the basis
>> of
>> what was or wasn't going on in the novel (The Great Gatsby)....This
>> approach uses the fiction as a
>> social document.
>
>
> Imagine reading Shakespeare that way.  You'd miss almost everything good
> about it.

Why would you miss it? Can't you get both?

Mike