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Mark McGurl explores the connections between fiction and higher education in the United States by demonstrating how much literature comes to us mediated by writing programs.
Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- 82.081 --- Creatief schrijven --- American fiction --- Creative writing (Higher education) --- History and criticism. --- History --- 82.081 Creatief schrijven --- Creative writing --- History and criticism --- Study and teaching (Higher) --- 20th century --- United States
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Once upon a time there were good American novels and bad ones, but none was thought of as a work of art. The Novel Art tells the story of how, beginning with Henry James, this began to change. Examining the late-nineteenth century movement to elevate the status of the novel, its sources, paradoxes, and reverberations into the twentieth century, Mark McGurl presents a more coherent and wide-ranging account of the development of American modernist fiction than ever before. Moving deftly from James to Stephen Crane, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, and Djuna Barnes among others, McGurl argues that what unifies this diverse group of ambitious writers is their agonized relation to a middling genre rarely included in discussions of the fine arts. He concludes that the new product, despite its authors' desire to distinguish it from popular forms, never quite forsook the intimacy the genre had long cultivated with the common reader. Indeed, the ''art novel'' sought status within the mass market, and among its prime strategies was a promotion of the mind as a source of value in an economy increasingly dependent on mental labor. McGurl also shows how modernism's obsessive interest in simple-mindedness revealed a continued concern with the masses even as it attempted to use this simplicity to produce a heightened sophistication of form. Masterfully argued and set in elegant prose, The Novel Art provides a rich new understanding of the fascinating road the American novel has taken from being an artless enterprise to an aesthetic one.
Fiction --- American literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- 820-3 "18/19" --- American fiction --- -Fiction --- Metafiction --- Novellas (Short novels) --- Novels --- Stories --- Literature --- Novelists --- Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Philosophy --- James, Henry --- -Influence --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- 820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- -Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- -Literature --- -820-3 "18/19" Engelse literatuur: proza--Hedendaagse Tijd --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- James, Henry, --- Influence. --- Dzheĭms, G. --- Dzheĭms, Genri, --- Jeimsŭ, Henri, --- Джеймс, Генри, --- ג׳יימס, הנרי, --- ג׳ײמס, הנרי, --- Τζειος, Χενρι, --- جميس، هينري، --- جيمز، هنرى --- LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. --- pastoral. --- naturalism. --- nativism. --- immigration. --- imagetext. --- high art. --- gender. --- education. --- detective novel. --- anthropology;avant-garde. --- Stein, Gertrud. --- Oliphant, Margaret. --- Mencken. --- McKeon, Michael. --- Malraux, Andre. --- Liveright, Horace. --- Levine, Lawrence. --- Kreyliug, Michael. --- Knopf. --- Joyce, James. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Hemingway, Ernest. --- Grimwood, Michael. --- Gather, Willa. --- Fugitive-Agrarians. --- Fried, Michael. --- Debray, Regis. --- Conrad, Joseph. --- Bush, Ronald. --- Black Mask. --- Children --- Education, Primitive --- Education of children --- Human resource development --- Instruction --- Pedagogy --- Schooling --- Students --- Youth --- Civilization --- Learning and scholarship --- Mental discipline --- Schools --- Teaching --- Training --- Immigration --- International migration --- Migration, International --- Population geography --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Colonization --- Anti-Catholicism --- Catholics --- Materialism --- Mechanism (Philosophy) --- Positivism --- Science --- Education --- Fugitive–Agrarians. --- anthropology. --- avant-garde. --- ROMAN AMERICAIN --- JAMES (HENRY), 1843-1916 --- ROMAN --- 20E SIECLE --- HISTOIRE ET CRITIQUE --- INFLUENCE --- TECHNIQUE
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"In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl discovers a dynamic scene of literary experimentation in an unlikely location: in the realms of self-publishing created by Amazon. Reclaiming several works of self-published fiction from the abyss of critical disregard, McGurl offers a Copernican revolution in the world of letters: rather than giving central importance to the critically lionized highbrows-Colson Whitehead, Don DeLillo, Elena Ferrante, and Amitav Ghosh, among others-he discovers that their fiction orbits countless unknown authors forging a career through untraditional means"--
Fiction --- Self-publishing --- Electronic publishing --- Fiction writing --- Writing, Fiction --- Authorship --- Digital publishing --- Online publishing --- Publishers and publishing --- Desktop publishing --- Publishing --- Amazon.com (Firm) --- Amazon (Firm) --- Amazon.com, Inc. --- Amazon(tm) --- Amazon trademark --- History. --- Amazon.com (Firm)--History --- Fiction--Authorship --- Fiction--Publishing --- Self-publishing. --- Electronic publishing. --- Authorship. --- Publishing.
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Since 2012, Public Books has championed a new kind of community for intellectual engagement, discussion, and action. An online magazine that unites the best of the university with the openness of the internet, Public Books is where new ideas are debuted, old facts revived, and dangerous illusions dismantled. Here, young scholars present fresh thinking to audiences outside the academy, accomplished authors weigh in on timely issues, and a wide range of readers encounter the most vital academic insights and explore what they mean for the world at large.Think in Public: A Public Books Reader presents a selection of inspiring essays that exemplify the magazine's distinctive approach to public scholarship. Gathered here are Public Books contributions from today's leading thinkers, including Jill Lepore, Imani Perry, Kim Phillips-Fein, Salamishah Tillet, Jeremy Adelman, Nathan Connolly, Namwali Serpell, and Ursula K. Le Guin. The result is a guide to the most exciting contemporary ideas about literature, politics, economics, history, race, capitalism, gender, technology, and climate change by writers and researchers pushing public debate about these topics in new directions. Think in Public is a lodestone for a rising generation of public scholars and a testament to the power of knowledge.
English literature --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature
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