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The Literary Bent - In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing (Paperback, New)
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The Literary Bent - In Search of High Art in Contemporary American Writing (Paperback, New)
Series: Penn Studies in Contemporary American Fiction
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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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