--- Juri Nummelin <
jurnum@utu.fi> wrote:
> This is pure nonsense. Chandler was born in the
US,
> raised in England,
> but lived and wrote his books in the US.
>
> But remember that when Andrew Harris made his
canon
> about the American
> film directors, he included Sergei Eisenstein,
Luis
> Bu񵄬 and such.
> This seems to happen all the time.
At least one reason for this kind of thing has to do with
canonical arguments. T.S. Eliot, for example, gets taught in
just about every undergrad American lit course AND every
British lit course. Is the reviewer a professor, does anyone
know? Perhaps he's just justifying his syllabus.
G.
===== George C. Upper III, Editor The Lightning Bell Poetry
Journal http://www.lightningbell.org/
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