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• catalog abstract "Award-winning writer Sven Birkerts takes on contemporary American fiction in this provocative new collection of essays. In these insightful pieces, Birkerts evaluates the postmodern literary scene and the effect the media, especially television, have had on the way we think and write. The most crucial essay, "The Talent in the Room," sets the theme for the book, as Birkerts discusses the diminished possibilities for the "great American novel" to be written. The essential connection between past and present has been severed, he argues, and a sense of history and depth, and the distinctions between high and low culture, have faded, only to be replaced with a glut of information from the computer age and the homogenized forces of television and mass communication. In other essays, Birkerts examines the diversity of the novelistic styles of such established writers as Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, and such writers just beginning to gain reputation as Paul Auster, Leslie Marmon Silko, and David Foster Wallace. American Energies confirms Birkerts's stature as one of the major essayists of our time.".
• catalog contributor b3667945.
• catalog created "1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
• catalog description "Award-winning writer Sven Birkerts takes on contemporary American fiction in this provocative new collection of essays. In these insightful pieces, Birkerts evaluates the postmodern literary scene and the effect the media, especially television, have had on the way we think and write. The most crucial essay, "The Talent in the Room," sets the theme for the book, as Birkerts discusses the diminished possibilities for the "great American novel" to be written. The essential connection between past and present has been severed, he argues, and a sense of history and depth, and the distinctions between high and low culture, have faded, only to be replaced with a glut of information from the computer age and the homogenized forces of television and mass communication. In other essays, Birkerts examines the diversity of the novelistic styles of such established writers as Philip Roth, Norman Mailer, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo, and such writers just beginning to gain reputation as Paul Auster, Leslie Marmon Silko, and David Foster Wallace. American Energies confirms Birkerts's stature as one of the major essayists of our time.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Postmodernism : bumper-sticker culture -- The totalized world : a note -- The nostalgia disease -- The second time around (Richard Goldstein) -- The boomers go bust (Terry Teachout) -- The hipness unto death (Mark Crispin Miller) -- Amusing ourselves to death (Neil Postman) -- Objections noted : word processing -- The Orwell mystique (John Rodden) -- Highbrow/lowbrow (Lawrence W. Levine) -- Teaching in a video age -- The talent in the room / with postscript -- Paranoids and intellectuals : keepers of the flame -- Fiction in a media age -- The school of Lish -- Writing Black (Gayl Jones) -- Destinies of character : a reading (Anne Tyler) -- Henry Miller -- Walker Percy -- Jack Kerouac -- William Styron -- James Salter --Richard Stern -- William Kennedy -- Paule Marshall -- Harold Brodkey -- Paul West -- John Barth -- John Updike -- Norman Rush -- Philip ROth -- Don DeLillo -- Thomas Pynchon -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Alan Lelchuk -- Russell Banks -- Jack Pulaski -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Frederick Busch/Elizabeth Spencer -- Larry Woiwode -- Jonathan Strong/ Andre Dubus/Alfred Alcorn -- J. California Cooper -- A postscript on Black American fiction -- Paul Auster -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- W.D. Wetherell --Rebecca Goldstein -- Nicholson Baker -- Allen Kurzweil -- Ethan Canin/Mona Simpson/Brett Easton Ellis/Jill Eisenstadt -- Madison Smartt Bell/Debra Spark -- David Foster Wallace.".
• catalog extent "413 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "American energies.".
• catalog identifier "0688106129".
• catalog isFormatOf "American energies.".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Morrow,".
• catalog relation "American energies.".
• catalog subject "813/.509 20".
• catalog subject "American fiction 20th century History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PS379 .B56 1992".
• catalog tableOfContents "Postmodernism : bumper-sticker culture -- The totalized world : a note -- The nostalgia disease -- The second time around (Richard Goldstein) -- The boomers go bust (Terry Teachout) -- The hipness unto death (Mark Crispin Miller) -- Amusing ourselves to death (Neil Postman) -- Objections noted : word processing -- The Orwell mystique (John Rodden) -- Highbrow/lowbrow (Lawrence W. Levine) -- Teaching in a video age -- The talent in the room / with postscript -- Paranoids and intellectuals : keepers of the flame -- Fiction in a media age -- The school of Lish -- Writing Black (Gayl Jones) -- Destinies of character : a reading (Anne Tyler) -- Henry Miller -- Walker Percy -- Jack Kerouac -- William Styron -- James Salter --Richard Stern -- William Kennedy -- Paule Marshall -- Harold Brodkey -- Paul West -- John Barth -- John Updike -- Norman Rush -- Philip ROth -- Don DeLillo -- Thomas Pynchon -- Joyce Carol Oates -- Alan Lelchuk -- Russell Banks -- Jack Pulaski -- Lynne Sharon Schwartz -- Frederick Busch/Elizabeth Spencer -- Larry Woiwode -- Jonathan Strong/ Andre Dubus/Alfred Alcorn -- J. California Cooper -- A postscript on Black American fiction -- Paul Auster -- Leslie Marmon Silko -- W.D. Wetherell --Rebecca Goldstein -- Nicholson Baker -- Allen Kurzweil -- Ethan Canin/Mona Simpson/Brett Easton Ellis/Jill Eisenstadt -- Madison Smartt Bell/Debra Spark -- David Foster Wallace.".
• catalog title "American energies : essays on fiction / Sven Birkerts.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".