Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 03:34:52 +0400
From: "Dr. Salwa Ghaly" <sghaly-AT-sharjah.ac.ae>
Subject: Re: Response to Re: modernism and the middlebrow


What is "feminine sensibility," according to you? :)

Salwa Ghaly, UAE
 
John V. Knapp wrote:

>Kathleen --
>
>If a male were to say that most women's writings (such as V. Woolf),
>consisted of "female middlebrow anxiety" (whether Boef en daub was of the
>right flavor, etc), the feminist critical hierarchy would throw a hissy
>fit.  It seems rather odd to me that a British male writer with an almost
>feminine sensibility would be so casually dismissed by you as "middle
>brow."  Is this the new dismissive code for "I really don't like his
>fiction" but can't explain why?  Surely, E. M. deserves better than that!
>
>Cheers,
>
>JVK
>
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>On Mon, 5 May 2003, Kathleen Ricker wrote:
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>>Seems to me that E. M. Forster's work was largely about (and, to a certain 
>>extent, *consisted* of) male middlebrow anxiety.
>>
>>
>>Kathleen Ricker
>>Research Editor
>>National Center for Supercomputing Applications
>>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>>E230 SRP  (217)244-3351
>>    
>>
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>John V. Knapp
>
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>	To depreciate a Book maliciously, or even wantonly, is 
>	at least a very ill-natured office; and a morose snarling 
>	Critic may, I believe, be suspected to be a bad Man. 
>		Henry Fielding,  *Tom Jones.*
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