----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
I kind of adore him. Reading the Anxiety of Influence as a sophomore is one of the things that led me out of the Party of the Right - intertextuality is a lot more fun than the Cleanth Brooks-ish close reading I'd been into as a reactionary. In the (huge) lecture class I took with him, I found him weirdly charming. I know he's kind of ridiculous sometimes, but what the hell?
------- Yeah "Anxiety" was a problem for me. The idea that an artist was primarily in a dialog with other artists....rather than with his immediate audience...was kinda depressing.
Joanna