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Michael D. Sharp Email: msharp@umich.edu
Department of English Lang. and Lit. Phone: (313)
761-8776
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: (313) 763-3128
On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, Greg Swan wrote:
> I love reading Carroll John Daly. I don't think I
want to take the time to
> launch a spirited academic defense of his work,
though. That's probably the
> point. Not a lot of pretention or even profundity
there . . . just some
> enjoyable pulp writing. Bellem or even Edgar Rice
Burroughs can be
> similarly destroyed, but are also fun reads. Perhaps
this sort of fiction
> might rate a little higher in a class devoted to
understanding and analyzing
> pulp writing.
>
> Greg
> swan@poboxes.com
>
> michael david sharp wrote:
> >
> > Dennis --
> > I rather liked your interpretation, wrong or
not.
> >
> > Spent yesterday trying (w/ my students) to
figure out the popularity of
> > Carroll John Daly. Editor of Black Mask Boys
(William F. Nolan) trashes
> > him even as he asserts his place at the origin
of the hardboiled
> > phenomenon. My kids absolutely (and hilariously)
tore Daly apart. Of
> > course they'd just started reading Maltese
Falcon, which can make even
> > competent writing look hack by comparison.
M-
> >
> >
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> > Michael D. Sharp Email:
msharp@umich.edu
> > Department of English Lang. and Lit. Phone:
(313) 761-8776
> > University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fax: (313)
763-3128
> >
> > On Wed, 21 Jan 1998, DCardKJHS wrote:
> >
> > > Hell's Bells! I should have had the good
sense to use the reference sources
> > > at my command before popping off with my
semi-plausible off the top of my head
> > > explanation of this particular usage of
"johnson". Apologies to all who
> > > thought I sounded like a snickering
schoolboy uttering "nasties" in class.
> > > Dennis
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