tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post4721589912576295214..comments2024-01-06T05:34:00.027-06:00Comments on Blog Meridian: In which the Meridian reads Cooper so you don't have to (even though you should)John B.http://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-47909112644670582642009-01-08T11:11:00.000-06:002009-01-08T11:11:00.000-06:00Lee,A belated thanks for dropping by and commentin...Lee,<BR/>A belated thanks for dropping by and commenting, and a "Yes indeed" to your final remark. When I read it yesterday, I found myself musing half-seriously that Huck Finn is a little Natty Bumppoish in terms of the conflict he feels between the expedients of his culture and his personal feelings toward Jim--except that Huck doesn't deny feeling those conflicts.John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-37285317858504824722009-01-07T13:31:00.000-06:002009-01-07T13:31:00.000-06:00Purely as a sidenote: the prof who taught Mohicans...Purely as a sidenote: the prof who taught Mohicans when I was an undergrad in the mid 80s informed the class that we could feel free to say "Chicago" instead of trying to pronounce "Chigachgook." He was a curious little man in most respects.<BR/><BR/>The real delight of the time we spent on the novel was reading "Fennimore Cooper's Literary Offenses" by Mark Twain, an author with his own WLIBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02388161709453371545noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-1596760962279070072009-01-07T09:00:00.000-06:002009-01-07T09:00:00.000-06:00Z.,Heh. That made me smile.I'm not going to read ...Z.,<BR/>Heh. That made me smile.<BR/><BR/>I'm not going to read all the Tales; Cora popped up in Doris Sommer's <I>Foundational Fictions</I> (Cooper is a touchstone for many 19th-century Latin American writers), and I hadn't read <I>Mohicans</I> before, so . . . time to get educated. Cooper's treatment of Cora should serve me well as a sort of lodestone for how people of mixed race usually get John B.https://www.blogger.com/profile/06358811061653958120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7640521.post-61674021064304586812009-01-07T08:27:00.000-06:002009-01-07T08:27:00.000-06:00I love Cooper (though nothing makes me happier tha...I love Cooper (though nothing makes me happier than interestingly terrible writing, so there you go). Are you reading the other Natty Bumpo books? It's a slog -- and I've employed the judicious skim technique here and there -- but nothing makes more clear how experimental (and *weird*) a book like Last of the Mohicans is like reading the ones before and after it. The first three Natty Bumpo booksUnknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10505845165131255374noreply@blogger.com