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What went wrong?(B. R. Myers, Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose)(Book Review)
B. R. Myers Reader's Manifesto: An Attack on the Growing Pretentiousness in American Literary Prose. Melville House, 149 pages, $9.95
Why is unmerited praise so annoying? The opposite sin, unmerited censure, we consider unjust and meet with indignation. But the misplaced compliment, the excess approval, the outsized reward given to what we know doesn't deserve it--that we find distasteful. Even in matters of culture, where the stakes are less immediate, undue favor gives offense. A bad novel is just a bad novel. We read twenty pages and toss it aside. But a good review of the novel sticks in our head, as if a trust has been violated. While the novelist speaks for ...
- A defense of the shrinking plot lines in American literary fiction.(Knight...
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Eberhart, John Mark August 1, 2001 700+ words
...raves on the back." _ B.R. Myers The quotations above are excerpted...growing pretentiousness of American literary prose," an essay that appeared...see, the essayist, B.R. Myers, is none too happy with contemporary...In his lengthy article, Myers takes swipes at several authors...
- Currents of study: charting the course of Asian American literary...
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Literary Imagination Sohn, Stephen Hong Gamber, John Blair March 22, 2004 700+ words
...critical mass firmly in place, Asian American literary criticism continues to grow as a...as a cultural production and Asian American literary criticism is quite explicit and symbiotic...criticism. In this examination of Asian American literary criticism over time and across ...
- Race and Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition.(Review)
- Magazine article from: African American Review Lewis, Leslie W. December 22, 1999 700+ words
...Gender in the Making of an African American Literary Tradition. New York: Garland...ideologies of race and gender in African American literary texts, it soon collapses into a...to be argued, but within African American literary scholarship it seems a given. Who...
- American Literary Studies. A Methodological Reader.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: CLIO Fluck, Winfried September 22, 2004 700+ words
American Literary Studies. A Methodological Reader...decline. One reason may be that American literary criticism has run out of theory...approaches within the field of American literary studies, to select a (previously...
- Redefining American Literary History.
- Magazine article from: African American Review Jakaitis, Jake December 22, 1993 700+ words
...their introduction to Redefining American Literary History, A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff...attendant monocultural models of American literary history while calling for multiethnic...assumptions inherent in notions of American literary history, but because it illustrates...
- American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise of Contract.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Studies in the Novel CRANE, GREGG D. March 22, 1999 700+ words
THOMAS, BROOK. American Literary Realism and the Failed Promise...century commerce and politics, American literary realists extract the utopian...social Darwinist evolution), American literary realists imagine the world...
- Forgotten Readers: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary...
- Magazine article from: College Literature Jacobs, Heidi L.M. January 1, 2005 700+ words
...Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies. Durham and London: Duke...Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies does exactly what literary...on the origins and rise of African American literary societies, the cultural work of...
- Feminist studies of Asian American literary/cultural studies.
- Magazine article from: Feminist Studies Yi Kang, Laura Hyun September 22, 2007 700+ words
...propose a feminist studies of Asian American literary/cultural studies as an effort to...two fields. The rubric of "Asian American literary/cultural studies" points to several...what might be identified as Asian American literary studies has exceeded the ethnic and...
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