RARA-AVIS: city vs country; gothic

From: ejmd ( ejmd@cwcom.net)
Date: 09 Feb 2000


Juri Nummelin < jurnum@utu.fi> writ:

> On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, ejmd wrote:

[ANIP]
> > > general tendency
> > in modernism: eg, Lawrence's city is 'the great wrong place' while the
> > country is presented as idyllic.
>
>[SNIP]
> Romantic poets (Wordsworth, Coleridge) and people like Rousseau
[SNIP]
> are not hardboiled.

<g>

> With the possible exception of
> Rousseau - Herbert Stinson wrote a series about P.I. Pete Rousseau for
> Black Mask...

:-D

> But of course this dichotomy between town and country is
> prevalent in almost all Western texts since 1800.

[Go on then, Juri I'll play the straight man for ya ...]

Sounds like 1799 was been a hell of a year ... what happened?

ED ;-)

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