Literary Bent

In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing

Autor: James D. Bloom

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: University of Pennsylvania Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being w...

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Autor

James D. Bloom

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

1997

Stránek

192

EAN

9780812215984

ISBN

0812215982

Enbook ID

04723162

Vydavatel

University of Pennsylvania Press

Hmotnost

300

Rozměry

140 x 216 x 13

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What is "literature in these postmodern, postcanonical times? And if a small number of works being written today are "literary," what distinguishes them from those many others that are not? The store managers who shelve books in separate "literature" and "fiction" sections clearly have something in mind, but they're not talking. James Bloom has his own ideas, and he is. With zest and conviction, Bloom argues that traditional aspirations to literariness persist in the poetry and fiction of writers such as Robert Stone, Jane Smiley, Salman Rushdie, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Rich, and Robert Pinsky. All, in their various ways, exhibit a critical and playful awareness of their literary antecedents, display and resist the seductions of eloquence, arouse and discipline their readers' curiosity. Bloom deftly shows how their writings negotiate with the nonliterary media that dominate our culture, even as the cultural capital of canonical authors like Shakespeare and Keats is put to work on the pages of mail-order catalogs and the New York Times, on network television, and in the products of the Disney conglomerate.

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