From: Patsloane-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 12:58:06 EDT
Subject: Re: PLC: Howard on Mein Kampf (was Fairness to Faulner)


In a message dated 8/16/00 10:23:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time, gtrail-AT-uh.edu 
writes:

> Jesus, Pat. Have you read the Eliot items in question?  "Your cultural
>  studies pals have it wrong. . ."? Why are you defending Eliot? What is
>  your agenda?  
>  g
1) I was defending the idea that one ought to read a book before expressing 
opinions about it.  But I realize that if  people don't want to, they won't, 
and I certainly take the point if you want to say that people have a right to 
behave as they wish. It's just that for me, I'd rather talk about books with 
people who've read them than with people who haven't.

2) Certain texts are at issue in the Eliot lit on the question of his 
attitude towards Jews. They aren't the texts Howard named. He says things are 
done differently in cultural studies, and I think we left it at that.

Why are you assuming I'd write a book on Eliot and not do my homework? Is 
that part of some agenda of yours?

Your book on rhetoric, by the way, was extremely helpful, and thanks for 
sending it along. It helped me to see the importance of rhetorical issues, 
although of course I don't know if you'd approve of how I handled them.

pat


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