True, yes -- but aren't some of academia's biggest critics and sassiest provocateurs to be found among senior professors -- true insiders?? If you want to read a terrific writer/essayist, who knows the Ivy-covered halls well, and excoriates some of our most esteemed values and pleasures: check out Joseph Epstein. But if you do, prepare both to laugh out loud but also disagree violently with some of his claims. If he is new to anyone, I suggest starting with A Literary Education .... Dr. Hal Bush Dept. of English Saint Louis University [log in to unmask] 314-977-3616 http://halbush.com author website: halbush.com ________________________________ From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Matt Seybold <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Thursday, November 1, 2018 8:20:41 AM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: TLS review: recent MT scholarship Except that Karlin is, I believe, a silly, sassy endowed chair at U. Bristol= . - MS > On Nov 1, 2018, at 8:59 AM, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >=20 > Taylor, thanks for your thoughts on this. Having now slept on the review,= =3D > and reading your response, it occurs to me that the TLS review might also q= =3D > ualify as one of those sassy essays in the "too superior for academic scho= l=3D > arship" genre. Meaning, partly, look at what those silly, abstruse academ= i=3D > cs are talking about--and HOW they talk about it. Even his response to th= e=3D > edition of the Letters calls it >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > Dr. Hal Bush >=20 > Dept. of English >=20 > Saint Louis University >=20 > [log in to unmask] >=20 > 314-977-3616 >=20 > https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__halbush.com&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=DbzpanGPey_1z2Rnhsfjai5Z7y7AkMTjgsJxw4Cg224&s=AYPRuhQ-VRQXjtEVK5OoI0pMVNsBCXsKODpz3WueWKI&e= >=20 > author website: halbush.com >=20 > ________________________________ > From: Mark Twain Forum <[log in to unmask]> on behalf of Taylor Roberts <tay= l=3D > [log in to unmask]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2018 9:36:38 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: TLS review: recent MT scholarship >=20 > Ouch! Karlin=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D99s review is stylishly well written, which= hurts.=3D > As Jac=3D3D > k Black=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D99s character in the movie Orange County morosel= y says =3D > in resp=3D3D > onse to an insult: =3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D9CHarsh!=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D9D >=20 > Karlin seems to have good knowledge of MT (aside from death order of daugh= t=3D > e=3D3D > rs + wife), but not much liking for him, and so I guess we shouldn=3D3DE2=3D= 3D8=3D > 0=3D3D99t=3D3D > expect much sympathy from the reviewer for MT scholarship targeted to luna= =3D > t=3D3D > ics like us=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D94I mean, =3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D9Ccompletists,=3D= 3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D9=3D > D which I admit I a=3D3D > m. I guess Karlin won=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D99t be joining this Forum? :) >=20 > Take care and hope you had a great Hallowe=3D3DE2=3D3D80=3D3D99en, > Taylor >=20 >> On Oct 31, 2018, at 16:18, Hal Bush <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> =3D3D20 >> Folks, here is a wide-ranging and entertaining review of a number of rece= =3D > n=3D3D > t=3D3D3D >> works on MT (though at times a tad dismissive), published in the latest T= =3D > L=3D3D > =3D3D3D >> S; including some relatively nice things to say about our new edition of =3D= > t=3D3D > h=3D3D3D >> e Twain-Twichell letters. I suppose we can forgive the dismissive tone o= =3D > f=3D3D > =3D3D3D >> some of in exchange for being cited in TLS! >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttps-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co= .u=3D > k_articles_public_never-2Dshall-2Dmeet-2Dmark-2Dtwain_&d=3D3DDwIBAg&c=3D3D= Pk_Hp=3D > aIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D3DMyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe= _71cj=3D > o-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3DRv2RkYRh4HS9wA8BSOXDqaXavjGMJA30XfnNXzUMSM4&e=3D3D= >> =3D3D20 >> [https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttps-3A__www.the-2Dtls.c= o.=3D > uk_s3_tls-2Dprod_uploads_2018_10_p3-2DKarlin.jpg&d=3D3DDwIBAg&c=3D3DPk_Hpa= IpE_j=3D > AoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D3DMyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo= -A1JJ=3D > 022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3DGebO_XobdfyXwqEPpJooqajHe3d2Oq1LEh4JVqkaUKc&e=3D3D]<http= =3D3D > s=3D3D3D >> ://https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttp-3A__www.the-2Dtls.= co=3D > .uk_articles_public_never-2Dshall-2Dmeet-2Dmark-2Dtwain_&d=3D3DDwIBAg&c=3D= 3DPk_=3D > HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D3DMyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqii= he_71=3D > cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3Dia3XnfJnok_rqpTKpnyu5qerKX_1_RdhboVR4PtfHXE&e=3D= 3D> >> =3D3D20 >> The difficulties in dealing with Mark Twain | Daniel Karlin<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__urlde-3D&d=DwIBAg&c=Pk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=f7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=DbzpanGPey_1z2Rnhsfjai5Z7y7AkMTjgsJxw4Cg224&s=VSQX36QoKkaG624tA9sKRr0ZOouXxi3Q-FYJddpdfGw&e= =3D > fense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttps-3A__www.th-3D&d=3D3DDwIBAg&c=3D3DP= k_HpaIp=3D > E_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D3DMyrPV8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71= cjo-A=3D > 1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3D4WwMSqEr7HawU8JClIapYT--ZTurFxTvuhuTv4Hy0ag&e=3D3D > e=3D3D3D >> -tls.co.uk/articles/public/never-shall-meet-mark-twain/> >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttp-3A__www.the-2Dtls.co.= uk=3D > &d=3D3DDwIBAg&c=3D3DPk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D= 3DMyrPV=3D > 8hfZL8s9DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3D_UryMCfAQvXMYhXOtwBxUFfvB_7Ko= 20M=3D > ZkvqIfLTTeQ&e=3D3D >> Mark Twain continues to bedevil the academy, if not the reading public. L= =3D > i=3D3D > k=3D3D3D >> e Kipling, he has been by turns reviled and revered, often for the wrong =3D= > r=3D3D > e=3D3D3D >> asons. >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> =3D3D20 >> Dr. Hal Bush >> =3D3D20 >> Dept. of English >> =3D3D20 >> Saint Louis University >> =3D3D20 >> [log in to unmask] >> =3D3D20 >> 314-977-3616 >> =3D3D20 >> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=3D3Dhttp-3A__halbush.com&d=3D3= DDwI=3D > BAg&c=3D3DPk_HpaIpE_jAoEC9PLIWoQ&r=3D3Df7i-Uq4rMQU8-TBe45qVLg&m=3D3DMyrPV8= hfZL8s9=3D > DUZqiihe_71cjo-A1JJ022TZpsCm0s&s=3D3D0gDAcwLcCqm-t9b0dPczC5OgBeRa-wY8rz7On= _RO=3D > Nqg&e=3D3D >> =3D3D20 >> author website: halbush.com