any author that comes off sorta uh... "manly" risks the label
of closet homosexual. hemingway went thru it about 8 years
ago in a biography that i don't care to read.
stereotyping has been seen in a lot of solid literature.
hemingway was criticized for his treatment of women. and
shakespeare could catch hell today for his writing about
jews, blacks, AND women.
"rampant" (hahaha... the phrase doesn't bother me, carrie)
stereotyping is a shortcoming that obscures truth and weakens
a work, but writing that bends to political fashion isn't
literature (don't like "literature?... substitute
"worth a damn"), either.
miker
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HB
In a message dated 11/18/01 12:57:32 PM,
kentwestmoreland@hotmail.com writes:
<< Perhaps Marlowe was homophobic because he hated his
homosexual yearnings. More likely some people have tried to
over analyze Marlowe and he was neither. To paraphrase Alfred
Hitchcock Marlowe's adventures were just stories.
>>
I seem to recall we had a lot of fun with this topic back
when we were reading that compilation of Marlowe stories by
other authors: Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe a couple
years back.
John Lau
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